ORLANDO, Fla., — Saturday February 23, 2019 is a day for the history books. More than 90,000 people registered and upwards of 55-thousand people attended a landmark gathering called The Send at Camping World Stadium in Orlando, Florida. It was intended to inspire and equipped the Church to fulfill Christ’s Great Commission.
ABIDJAN, COTE D’IVOIRE — More than 50,000 people in West Africa gathered Feb. 15-17, 2019 in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire for a 3-day evangelistic festival with evangelist Andrew Palau. Led by the Luis Palau Association, the week-long campaign was the culmination of more than three years of work in Cote d’Ivoire, including massive citywide festivals in other influential cities such as Yamoussoukro and San Pedro.
Dubai, UAE – Empowered21 hosted emerging young leaders from around the world at the E21 NextGen Summit, January 30-February 1, 2019 in Dubai in a successful effort to equip and inspire them to meet the challenges they face in their globally influential ministries. The summit was part of E21’s Next Gen Network (NGN).
A grassroots movement of American citizens distressed by New York’s recent abortion law has turned their disgust to action with a “Day of Mourning” on February 23rd.
As Virginia politics is roiled by revelations about senior state officials having worn or countenanced blackface in past years, how America and its churches address racial sin remains an ongoing moral and spiritual imperative. Secular America stresses guilt without atonement. Churches advocate racial reconciliation but often seem to lack the spiritual tools to achieve their laudable goals for the church or the nation.
National Marriage Week USA (www.nationalmarriageweekusa.org), a national campaign to increase marriage education and champion marital success, launched February 7 and will conclude on Valentine’s Day, February 14. Since 2010, this important campaign has sought to espouse the many benefits of marriage, including better health, increased wealth, and greater happiness for married couples and their children.
