A series of eight regional “Listening Tours” has been announced by the Church of God Executive Committee which will take place across the United States in February and March 2009.

NET, a brand new cable channel will launch in prime time on December 8, 2008 at 8;00 pm. NET, a fresh, exciting new service replaces The Prayer Channel, the former center for religious, educational and cultural programming in the New York area. NET will continue in its place with the same values and goals but with a bold new look and entertaining, DVR worthy original programming.

A new project of Focus on the Family (FOTF) seems to be convincing Christians in Colorado to adopt a foster child.

The World Missions Leadership team has been conducting Local Church Missions Representatives (LMR) Seminars. Thus far, there have been a total of seven of these meetings in the following states: North Georgia, South Carolina, Northern and Southern Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia, Pennsylvania and Kentucky.

The World Missions Leadership team has been conducting Local Church Missions Representatives (LMR) Seminars. Thus far, there have been a total of seven of these meetings in the following states: North Georgia, South Carolina, Northern and Southern Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia, Pennsylvania and Kentucky.

On the eve of National Bible Week – established in 1942 by the Roosevelt administration – Wycliffe Bible Translators, the world’s largest Bible translation organization, is launching the Last Languages Campaign. This historic, high-speed, high-tech effort to start a language development and Bible translation program in the remaining one-third of the world’s language groups that still need one by 2025 represents a time savings of 125 years from the 1990s translation pace.

Starting school. A new sibling arrives. The first day of soccer. For children, these are big changes in their life. First-time author Lisa Titus guided her daughter, Jaleesa through these changes. The book, “Jellybean,” is three uplifting stories about how a young child adapts with the loving support of her parents.

“Every day almost 16,000 children die from hunger-related causes,” reports The Lancet, the world’s leading independent general medical journal. The Moju Project Website was created to help curtail the hunger epidemic that is taking the life of one child every five seconds.

By J. Lee Grady

Foreclosure. Eviction. Bailouts. We’re hearing those terms a lot these days, and not just in the newspaper’s business section.