The Church of God Division of Education (DOE) is making last-minute preparations for the free online event, Advance, designed to highlight continual, lifelong learning. The summit will take place on Tuesday, March 23, 2021 at 830 p.m. EST.
America’s Prayer Meeting, a nation-wide virtual two-day prayer event originating from the Church of God International Offices Leadership and Communications Center, begins with Pastor Loran Livingston from the Central Church of God in Charlotte, N.C., tonight, March 15, at 7 PM EST.
On March 1 of this year, Hispanic Educational Ministries in the U.S. and Canada held the first Virtual Congress on Latino Ministerial Education. The central theme of the event was Revitalization of Education. The main purpose of the virtual educational summit was to offer contemporary pedagogical tools as well as practices to all the membership and leadership interested in advancing the teaching of the Word of God in this postmodern century.
March 9, 2021–Cleveland, TN–General Overseer Tim Hill hosted officials from the Dixon Pentecostal Research Center today to present original sermon manuscripts of his, and his late father, Rev. J.W. Hill. The donation will be added to a growing collection of sermon materials housed at the DPRC.
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.
