After three intense days with deep discussions and productive sessions, the bi-annual meeting of the World Council of Churches(WCC) ECHOS Commission came to an end on Thursday. Fourteen young committee members and staff from 20 different countries all over the world had gathered in Seoul, Korea to further strengthen the WCC young peoples movement and continue the pilgrimage of justice and peace.
Faith-based agency Gospel for Asia (GFA, www.gfa.org) today announced it is combatting the deadly mosquito menace and resulting malaria parasite killing thousands of children in Asia, as the Christian organization marks the annual World Mosquito Day on August 20. To read GFA’s special report titled “Fighting Malaria—a Chilling Disease,” visit: http://www.gfa.org/press/mosquito-report.
Teams of crisis-trained chaplains with the Billy Graham Rapid Response Team (RRT) are on their way to El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, following a pair of shootings over the weekend. News reports say 20 people have died and 26 others were injured in El Paso. In Dayton, an additional nine people were killed and 26 people were hurt. RRT chaplains at both sites will work alongside government officials, churches, first responders and with the community at large to provide emotional and spiritual care.
A ministry in El Paso, Texas is asking all intercessors to stand with it in praying for healing after Saturday’s mass shooting at a Walmart left 20 dead and 26 wounded.
Best Christian Workplaces Institute today honored eighty-nine organizations, churches, and Christian-led businesses as “Certified Best Christian Workplaces” from January—June 2019. The new honorees are based primarily in the U.S. and Canada.
Why is it hard for some of us to understand who God really is? Why do we struggle with His names—Father, Son, Holy Spirit? How do we fully know this thing called the Godhead? Over the past two millennia, people have tried to understand the mystery of the Godhead using human reasoning and thinking, but it fails every time because, first, the Godhead does not operate or function as humans do, and second, God is not subject to human reasoning. Yet author Matthew William Marx says, “Understanding the mystery of the Godhead is both simple and profound when we know how to use the key Jesus gave us.”
