Faith News Network

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.

Crisis-trained chaplains with the  Billy Graham Rapid Response Team are in California to minister to the emotional and spiritual needs of those who have been affected by the widespread Butte and Valley Fires.

Oral Roberts University President William M. Wilson announced the university’s seventh consecutive year of enrollment growth for the 2015-2016 academic year for the globally-focused, Tulsa-based institution. This announcement comes as the university is preparing to celebrate its 50th anniversary during a Global Celebration Week, October 19-24. Total enrollment is 3,611, an increase of 130 students from last year. These students embody a diverse population, representing 50 states and 85 nations around the globe.

Stephanie McGuire, owner/founder of Faith Baby, Inc. (www.faithbaby.com) prayed for God to make a way for her to share the blessing of her company with others. Never did she dream it would lead her into the same marketplace as some of the country’s largest companies such as Origami Owl, Perfectly Posh, and Thirty-One Gifts, just to name a few.

A prosthetic limb team returns to Accra, Ghana this week to continue its work in training and equipping local workers to build limbs for their own people. Standing With Hope is the vision of author and radio host, Peter Rosenberger and his wife Gracie, who had both of her own legs amputated as a result of a horrific car accident as a teenager.