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.
Imagine looking up the word “God” in the dictionary only to find it’s not there. This was the case in Albania, where before the fall of communism in the early 1990s, government leaders attempted to remove all spirituality from the culture—destroying churches, temples and mosques and even removing the word “God” from dictionaries.
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.
Over the course of the past several months, Operation Compassion has been in discussion with many Church of God and governmental leaders in Mexico and Central America about launching a network involving multiple non-profit agencies, country presidents, city mayors, and approximately 6,000 churches. This network will serve more than one million orphaned and underserved children living in the region.
