Recipients of the 2014 Church of God Distinguished Educator of the Year Awards were announced during the Leadership Enrichment Training Conference on July 28 of the Church of God International General Assembly, conducted July 29-August 1, 2014 in Orlando, Florida.
Cody DeWitt sold his family home and was packing up his household for a move to Illinois where he was about to start a new job with Samaritan Ministries International, a nonprofit alternative to medical insurance.
If Jesus Christ taught a class on marketing, what might he say? That is the question explored in Darren Shearer’s new book, “Marketing Like Jesus: 25 Strategies to Change the World,” which is now available for purchase at www.Amazon.com and www.DarrenShearer.com.
What does hope look like?
Describing it is not always the easiest thing. And Jeremy Puckett, a 33-year-old Pittsburgh police officer, can’t always spot it, but he sure knows when it’s missing.
All it takes is one look at a person’s face. Hopelessness, in Puckett’s experience, is nearly impossible to mask.
“You can see it in their eyes,” he said.
Puckett was one of hundreds of counselors at this weekend’s Three Rivers Festival of Hope in Pittsburgh, the city he grew up in. He entered the festival eagerly wondering how God might work in his hometown.
