The Christian and Missionary Alliance has launched a new program that offers young adults the opportunity to experience cross- cultural missions firsthand. Praxis is a network of C&MA ministry sites with the same purpose: to develop a generation of leaders who can impact the world by living out authentic faith.

Church of God members were affected in the tragic explosion of a munitions depot in the outskirts of Tirana, Albania, last Saturday, according to Hervin Fushekati, overseer. The villages of Gerdec, Vora and Marikaj reported damage to church buildings and pastors’ homes.

Tommy was recently in Singapore for four days, ministering to the Indonesian congregation there, which worships in the Grand Hyatt Hotel. He challenged them to believe God for a vision larger than what they can accomplish alone—to believe God for miracles.

The latest Pew Religious Landscape Survey points to a trend demographers and Church leaders have observed for years – movement across and away from religious affiliations. The Nebraska-based Global Institute For Transformation believes there’s an even bigger issue that should be focused on – the spiritual fervency of the average American Christian, regardless of affiliation.

Advent Film Group (AFG), founded to rebuild culture for Christ in cinema, heeds Dr. James Dobson’s call for a new generation of Christian leaders “to carry the banner when this generation of leaders is gone,” Dobson told an audience of nearly 1,400 at the National Religious Broadcasters (NRB) convention. “The question is, will the younger generation heed the call? Who will defend the unborn child in the years to come?”

By Jackye Campion

As many of us know from headlines media and published statistics, there have been increases in violent crime and suicide among teens in the last few years. Abundant Life Church of God saw the need to give kids hope by spreading the gospel among teens in South San Antonio.

The most widely distributed book in the world just found a new outlet. Now, users of the Reader Digital Book by Sony can make the Bible a part of their portable library.

Marie Chiara and Shantell Robbins traveled to Richards Bay, Kwa Zulu Natal, South Africa, for their internship. Working from their base, Emmanuel Temple, under the supervision of Pastors Timothy and Priscilla Harry, Marie and Shantell traveled to Mozambique and Swaziland for part of their internship where they immersed themselves in holistic mission work.

By Grant McClung

I’m on my way again through Richard Foster’s classic Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth (Harper San Francisco 1998) and am arrested by his meditation focus on the Passion of Jesus Christ. Foster proposes that believers: