Faith News Network

Church of God representatives in Nepal recently expressed their gratitude to Church of God World Missions Director Dr. Timothy Hill, Assistant Director Dr. John Childers, and Field Director Ken Anderson for their prayerful support and financial initiative for humanitarian relief funds after the incomparable earthquake (7.8 Richter scale) that took place on April 25, as well as the aftershocks that continued.

Individuals and churches have gone above and beyond in opening their hearts and hands to the people of this small nation. Donations have exceeded expectation.

Award-winning author and publisher, Shelley Hitz, best known for teaching thousands how to turn personal triumphs into best-selling books, will keynote at InScribe’s Christian Writers’ Fellowship Fall Conference scheduled for September 28 – 30, 2017, in Edmonton, AB, Canada.

The second most expensive Gospel Book ever sold at public auction after the Gospels of Henry the Lion in 1983 went under the hammer today at Christie’s in London. The Carolingian “Gospels of Queen Theutberga” written in c. 825-850 was bought by Les Enluminures Ltd. for just over three million dollars for The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Representing Les Enluminures in the rooms, Dr. Christopher de Hamel, who oversaw the sale of the Gospels of Henry the Lion at Sotheby’s more than three decades ago, has known this Carolingian manuscript since 1975. Dr. de Hamel remarks that the present manuscript is in “unbelievable condition and of noble provenance; it is difficult to imagine finding another ninth-century manuscript in such a flawless state.”