Arthur Blessitt who just turned 74 years old is still walking on sharing Jesus. He has carried a 12-foot cross in every nation; 323 nations, major island groups and territories over 41,200 miles, 82 million steps with the cross and 18 billion pounds carried. Arrested 24 times for Christ, in 54 countries at war. He made the cross in 1968 in Hollywood, California and left for the world in 1969.
Giants fans flocked to downtown San Francisco Friday. They converged to celebrate their team’s third Major League Baseball World Series title in five years, an unlikely championship run that was capped by a storybook 3-2 game-seven win over the Kansas City Royals on Wednesday. Adorned in orange and black (not for Halloween but because those are the Giants’ colors), the crowd cheered series MVP Madison Bumgarner, slugger Pablo Sandoval, Wednesday’s winning pitcher, Jeremy Affeldt, and the entire team.
Pro basketball star Jeremy Lin has never been shy about his Christian faith. Now, just entering his first season with the Los Angeles Lakers, Lin is asking his fans for intercessory prayer and has started a prayer group for his fans.
As Faith Bible Chapel in suburban Denver celebrated its 36th annual Israel Awareness Day Oct. 19 with a Holocaust exhibit, Jewish-style music and dance, an Israel display, Mediterranean cuisine and high-caliber speakers from the United States and Jerusalem on Sunday, the keynote address by a Texas pastor was sobering and optimistic.
At a news conference on Monday in Jerusalem, Empowered21 President and Global Co-Chair Billy Wilson joined with prominent leaders of major Jewish and Christian global organizations to sign a historic joint initiative calling on world leaders to take firm action to halt the brutal persecution of Christians in the Middle East.
Mike Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor and 2008 Republican presidential candidate, is throwing down the same-sex gauntlet in his party’s back yard.
