By Michael Knight, National Church Planting Office
The Harvard Business Review in May of 2008 featured an article by Dr. John J. Medina. He is a leader in neuroscience and its affect upon leadership. Medina writes about The Science of Thinking Smarter. He believes that neuroscience can show managers ways to improve productivity.
PHILIPPINES — As a missionary kid, I’m full of stories of God’s healing power, miraculous provision and unfailing protection. But the story that typifies our lives as a mission family isn’t really all that dramatic, involving only a desperate father and a prayer. But to me, an MK, it exemplifies all that my parents’ lives are about—a burden, a call, and the fight to save souls.
Weeks before the movie Fireproof opens in theaters, The Love Dare, a book that began as a plot device in the film, has sold 300,000 copies into bookstores and is in its third printing. Sony Pictures opens Fireproof in some 750 theaters this Sept. 26.
CLEVELAND, TN—The 2008-2010 edition of the Church of God International Executive Council (IEC) is meeting in their first session since being elected at the 72nd Church of God General Assembly last month in San Antonio, Texas.
A Trinity Broadcasting Network initiative created to impact the nation’s soaring recidivism rates is gaining in popularity with correctional officials. Launched in 2007, TBN Second Chance is a faith-based program designed to give inmates a second chance to make good choices by providing positive, life-affirming television programming around the clock. The program is fully funded by TBN, the largest faith-based network in the world, and provides up to four different channels for diverse inmate populations-along with the equipment necessary to receive them-completely free of charge to correctional and rehabilitative facilities.
According to The Associated Press, Pastor Bernard Crabbe of the True North Community Church in Port Jefferson, New York, announced recently that an anonymous parishioner had donated a winning lottery ticket worth $3 million to the church. A state lottery official said the independent congregation of 650 members would now receive $100,000 annually through 2028.
