The Office of Special Projects in USA Missions announces that the final details have been arranged, and the 2017 Jail and Prison Ministry Conference will be held on Friday, October 6, 2017, in the Leadership and Communications Center on the campus of the Church of God International Offices in Cleveland, Tennessee.
PureFlix.com, the leader in faith and family streaming video, is joining forces with the nation’s top trade publication for homeschooling to help families who are looking to enhance their curriculum and research options.
Richard Weikart, an author and history professor at California State University, Stanislaus, recently teamed up with Emmy-Award-winning cinematographer and producer Jim Gromer on an exciting documentary project. To commemorate the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, they filmed at many sites in Germany and Switzerland where Luther and other Reformers made history.
The 2017 fall issue of Church of God Engage has been released and is available digitally at www.cogengage.org.
The journal for ministers, church and lay leaders, offers a variety of articles for those working in ministry on a regular basis. Different than Church of God Evangel, Engage offers practical ministry ideas and resources, as well as items for the local church to implement.
This issue has articles that address such pertinent topics as the tithe of tithes, ways we quench the Holy Spirit, and leadership development. Guest writer Pastor Rick Warren offers “Four Ways a Pastor Can Show Love for His People.”
Regular columns include Legal Notes and Financial Matters that appeal to the minister and local church. In a special emphasis this issue, former first lady of the Church of God, Sandra Kay Williams, speaks about the role as a pastor’s wife as it relates to the church staff. She and her husband, Mark, now serve at the North Cleveland Church of God. There is also a section which looks back at the last four months of Church of God happenings as reported on Faith News Network.
Published three times a year, Engage is first emailed to ministers and leaders in the Church of God. It is then made available to anyone simply through logging into the website www.cogengage.org. On the site, the publication may be downloaded for print, or viewed in a convenient two-page spread. There are also archived copies of the publication going back several years.
“Remember ever, and always, that your country was founded by the stern old Puritans whose first act on touching the soil of the new world was to offer on bended knees thanksgiving to Almighty God” (paraphrase of Henry Wilson; 18TH U.S. Vice President).
I recently spent some time updating a list I have of scriptures related to health and wellness. It now includes over 66 verses that follow.
