Cleveland, TN–Following any Church of God General Assembly there are changes in leadership, but following the most recent General Assembly re-structuring of some ministry areas also took place.

Dirksen Appointed Chair of CCCU

By TJ Wright

The Council for Christian Colleges and Universities (CCCU) has appointed Lee University Vice President of Academic Affairs Dr. Carolyn Dirksen as chair for its Chief Academic Officers Commission. Dirksen has previously served as the vice chair of the commission.

FrontGate Media, the largest Internet and event entertainment media group reaching the faith and family audience, today announces an exclusive agreement to create and coordinate digital promotions, sponsorships and online advertising for the Gospel Music Channel web site in the faith-based market.

Starting in 2006, 4 Winds Christian Athletics distributed the testimonies of Olympic track and field athletes worldwide, including in the underground Chinese church. Outside groups that work with the underground church asked to take the testimonies into the underground church, estimated to be over 100 million people according to China Aid and the Voice of the Martyrs.

Several Christian organizations based in Israel recently helped keep the doors open at a cancer treatment center founded in Jerusalem 10 months ago in honor of the late Yuri Shtern, a former Knesset member and Russian Jew known for building close ties between the state of Israel and the international Christian community. Shtern died of debilitating cancer last year.

Caziah Media Group., a North Carolina based Christian media and marketing firm, and Kingdom Agents United, a youth and young adult Christian leadership consortium, today announced the launch of KAU Radio beginning September 1.

Tim LaHaye, the originator and co-author with Jerry B. Jenkins of the extremely popular Left Behind® Series of prophetic-based novels of life on earth after the Rapture and the creators of the companion Left Behind: The Kids novels for children, is happy to announce that he has settled his eight-year long lawsuit against Namesake Entertainment and Cloud 10 Pictures.

The country’s first-ever National Gospel Music Heritage Month is now supported by an exclusive web site dedicated to all aspects of the September celebration of gospel music’s valuable long-standing contributions to American culture as http://www.gospelmusicheritage.com launches today.

Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) chemist, Robert Villarreal (87544), disclosed startling new findings proving that the sample of material used in 1988 to Carbon-14 (C-14) date the Shroud of Turin, which categorized the cloth as a medieval fake, could not have been from the original linen cloth because it was cotton.