Since 2010, Bless Friday® has provided an alternative to hectic Christmas shopping on the day after Thanksgiving. Churches and Christians in Houston, The Woodlands, Katy, Trinity, and Cotulla Texas and Seattle, Washington are preparing service projects that honor Christ at Christmas on Friday, November 29 and also on Saturday the 30th. These churches encourage families and individuals to celebrate Bless Friday® as an alternative to Black Friday.
This St. Patrick’s Day the little-known yet fascinating and true story of Ireland’s patron saint comes to life on theater screens nationwide for two days only in the inspiring docudrama I AM PATRICK: THE PATRON SAINT OF IRELAND.
In the time-honored tradition of sharing greetings, good wishes, and prayers at Christmas, The Presidential Prayer Team is hosting a nationwide, largest-ever-of-its-kind, greeting to the nation’s First Family. The goal is to allow praying and concerned Americans to make a positive, lasting – even historic – impact on the White House, by personally providing important encouragement to President Trump, First Lady Melania Trump, and “First Kid” Barron Trump through prayer greetings in a spirit of gratitude and love. They may post their greetings at WhiteHouseChristmas.org. The hardest job in the world might well be made easier by kind words and intercessions.
Rethink Leadership, an event exclusively for senior leaders, will be held April 29-May 1, 2020, in Atlanta at the John C. Maxwell Leadership Center at 12 Stone Church. The 2020 speaker lineup includes: Simon Sinek, Kara Powell, Dharius Daniels, Mark Batterson, Lee Jenkins, Danielle Strickland, Joel Manby, Jon Acuff, Carey Nieuwhof, Reggie Joiner, and Andy Stanley. In addition to delivering all new content focused on the needs and concerns of today’s senior leaders, the highly-anticipated gathering promises something even better–dialogue, access, and connection for all attendees.
Anyone who has been a victim of sexual abuse knows the physical, spiritual and psychological effects can torment an individual for a lifetime. Although the external wounds heal, the internal wounds and sickening images are either still very raw or have been pushed down so far that darkness covers them. But for those several hundred victims who have met Linda Gibson, a survivor of sexual abuse herself, the healing has been nothing short of miraculous.
The greatest rescue story ever told comes to life on movie screens in a special nationwide event April 7, 9 and 11. Filmed in front of a live audience, Sight & Sound’s JESUS is the action-packed musical stage adventure that takes audiences on a miraculous journey alongside the most famous person ever to walk the earth and the everyday people whose lives he changed forever.
