When it comes to attending church, praying and reading the Bible, the apple does not fall far from the tree. A recent poll of teens and their parents overwhelmingly confirms that parents have the most influence on their children’s religious activity.
In October 2006, on a trip to Africa, church leaders shared with Dwight Hall, president of Remnant Publications, a request for printed Bible study guides for the southern countries of Africa.
“We started the listening program for the second time on Jan. 6,” said Pastor Bryan Hackett from Edgewood Believers Fellowship. “Our last day of listening is Valentine’s Day, so we are looking at this project as if we’re reading our ‘Letter of Love from Dad’,” he said.
To be a missionary is one of the most important callings in the ministry. It usually means the forsaking of family, friends and, sometimes, the necessities of life. It has meant, to some, even their lives. The question must be asked: Do you have what it takes to be a missionary?
The TLW New Testament is being released to coincide with Valentine’s Day, a time in which a large number of True Love Waits’ abstinence-until-marriage commitment ceremonies are held in churches and other places around the world.
Millions were inspired by the stirring, visceral account of Lt. General Hal Moore’s Vietnam war experience as told in the New York Times #1 bestseller We Were Soldiers Once…And Young. The major motion picture adaptation, We Were Soldiers, was hailed by many as “one of the best war movies ever made.” But there is so much more to the story.
