Tulsa, Okla.— To celebrate 50 years of building Holy Spirit-empowered leaders, Oral Roberts University (ORU) forgave the debts of 10 students during its chapel service Wednesday. The University randomly selected the students through a drawing.
Oral Roberts University (ORU) is celebrating 50 years of building Holy Spirit-empowered leaders. The University, which opened in 1965, began with a call from God: “raise up your students to hear My voice, to go where My light is dim, where My voice is heard small, and My healing power is not known, even to the uttermost bounds of the earth. Their work will exceed yours, and in this I am well pleased.”
On Oct. 15, the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association will release “Value of a Soul,” the 2015 installment of evangelistic films available for use free of charge. The new program comes on the heels of the success of its previous My Hope films, “The Cross” released in 2013, and “Heaven” released in 2014.
“Value of a Soul” takes a closer look at the question asked by Jesus and recorded in Mark 8:36-37: “For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul? For what can a man give in return for his soul?”
Crisis-trained chaplains with the Billy Graham Rapid Response Team have deployed to Columbia, S.C., one of many areas across the Palmetto State that have been blanketed by once-a-millennium floodwaters.
NCS Services, Inc., and Newport News, Virginia-based World Life Group of America, LLC (WLGA) entered into a strategic partnership, effective September 16, 2015, according to statements released by both management teams. In addition to the agreement with NCS Services, the management teams have also agreed to a long term exclusive relationship with National Church Solutions, a Chester, West Virginia-based offering envelope manufacturer and the parent company of NCS Services.
The World Congress of Families (WCF) extends a warm greeting to Pope Francis on his first visit to America. We applaud the Pope and the Catholic Church’s moral perspective on the important questions of humanity and their endorsement of WCF’s mission of goodwill to affirm the natural family as the only fundamental and sustainable unit of society and ordered liberty consistent with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the truths of faith, reason, and natural law.
