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Cleveland, TN–Dr. Tim Hill announced that the Church of God will host America’s Prayer Meeting, a virtual national prayer meeting being promoted by the National Prayer Committee, the sponsoring group for the National Day of Prayer.

The event will be broadcast from the Church of God Leadership and Communications Center over a two-day period next week March 15-16, 2021. Dr. Dave Butts, chair of the National Prayer Committee, will host the event along with Kay Horner, of the Awakening Alliance, and various other prayer leaders, some in the studio space and others who will connect virtually from across the nation.

The program for the event is still in the formative stages. “We want to be very sensitive to the Holy Spirit,” noted P. Douglas Small, an event organizer and Church of God prayer leader, “so we will provide programming that will feature leading prayer advocates from across the nation.” One feature will be a collage of video vignettes that will focus on spiritual awakenings in our national past. The vignettes will provide a virtual trip around the world, looking at samples of extraordinary city and region-wide revivals from the past few decades, mixed with prayers that such stirrings will grip America’s cities.

Many national prayer leaders will be onsite. Others will join the event through a remote-live feed. And a collage of prerecorded videos will be used throughout the day to inspire prayer. At times, prayer groups will gather over a 3-dimensional map of the nation to pray. A simultaneous live call-in prayer meeting will also occur, allowing intercessors from across the nation to join a prayer call on behalf of revival and awakening. National prayer leaders and pastors are being asked to host segments of the live, simultaneous call-in prayer experience.

“We hope,” Small noted, “that thousands of congregations will meet for prayer on Monday and Tuesday, March 15-16, and the nation will join the two-day prayer event on-line and host watch parties.”
For more information the website is www.americapray.net.

The following is a personal story from General Overseer Tim and Paula Hill’s journey of rearing a family while in ministry and leadership.

Central Church of God in Charlotte, N.C. will host a prayer meeting for the nation on Monday, March 15, at 7 PM EST. The event was announced last night from the Church of God International Offices during the first night of the Agree ’21 prayer convocation.

Church leaders, including General Overseer Tim Hill, will launch the first of two nights of prayer from the International Offices tonight at 7:00 p.m. EST.

Cleveland, TN–The US House of Representatives recently passed H.R. 5 – the “Equality Act.” This action was anticipated and expected. Under the Act, sexual orientation/gender identity will be recognized as a civil right, as are race, national origin, and other factors.

Cleveland, TN–The Dixon Pentecostal Research Center is celebrating 50 years of ministry to the Church of God and Pentecostal/Charismatic Movements on March 2, 2021. Founded under the leadership of Charles W. Conn on the campus of Lee University, the center is one of the world’s largest repositories of Pentecostal publications, documents, and artifacts. Along with its extraordinary growth, the center has expanded its mission to preserve Pentecostal voices as it seeks to fulfill the biblical mandate of Psalm 78:4: “We will tell the next generation about the glorious deeds of the Lord. We will tell of his power and the mighty miracles he did” (NLT).