Faith News Network

Moving Beyond Ministries, is pleased to announce that founder and author, Andrea Thompson, will be a featured speaker at this year’s Good News Spectacular event, an annual event sponsored by Covenant Films and BDS Productions. The annual show features powerful personal testimony, music and fun underwritten and covered in prayer by Emmanuel Church in Abilene, Kansas. The Good News Spectacular event takes place on Saturday, September 26 at 7:00 p.m. Central at the Chapman High School Auditorium. The event is a fundraiser with net proceeds given to the Drew Kroeker Scholarship Fund. Tickets are $10 at the door.

Aspen Group, an integrated design, build, and furnish company for churches, has expanded its territory into the Southeastern United States. This move, centered between Charleston, SC, and Savannah, GA, represents a significant extension of Aspen’s two decades-plus service to churches in the Midwest.

Because of the comprehensive and accelerating failure of the government school system and the encroachment of Common Core State Standards (CCSS), Exodus Mandate (Frontline Ministries, Inc.) has launched a new film, Escaping Common Core: Setting Our Children Free (Volume 1). Common Core is a major issue in the 2016 presidential campaign, and this new DVD will impact the national debate about the best and biblical alternatives for K-12 education and why public school reform is not possible.

Crisis management and public relations firm, Frederick & Associates, is at the forefront in helping churches prepare for crises and emergencies. With the increase in violence and threats in the United States, and concerns from ISIS abroad, churches are taking action and planning ahead.

The 56th General Council of the Assemblies of God, representing over three million adherents in the U.S., opens today at the Orange County Convention Center. Approximately 20,000 persons are expected to attend the meetings.

Serving a cause that is greater than oneself is one of the top attractions of working in a Christian organization. These survey results indicate employees in Christian workplaces experience work that is meaningful and life giving.