A cover story from Today’s Christian Woman magazine featuring Michigan adoptive mom and author Kim de Blecourt (“Until We All Come Home: A Harrowing Journey, a Mother’s Courage, a Race to Freedom,” November 2012, FaithWords) recently inspired Tim and Bess Lewis of southern Illinois to take a leap of faith.
Short-term missions are effectively spreading the gospel and the love of Christ to nearly every corner of the world. Yet most who accept the call to short-term missions experience an all too familiar cycle — the spiritual high during the trip and a rapid, sometimes deflating return to reality afterward.
The 2013 state winners of the annual Longest Married Couple Project, sponsored by Worldwide Marriage Encounter (WWME), the original faith based marriage enrichment program in this country, were announced today.
Farshid Fathi, an Iranian Christian pastor, is beginning the third year of a six-year prison sentence on a conviction of “being chief-director of foreign organizations in Iran and gathering funds for these organizations.”
People with no religious affiliation make up the third-largest global group in a new study of the size of the world’s faiths, placing after Christians and Muslims and just before Hindus.
U.S. gymnast and two-time Olympic gold medalist Gabrielle Douglas believes that her own success is directly proportional to the immense support from her faith in God, family and friends. This theme is at the heart of her debut memoir: Grace, Gold & Glory: My Leap of Faith, which releases today from Zondervan.
