Feed The Children is currently the eighth-largest charity in the world and provides food, medicine, clothing, and other necessities to children and families who lack these essentials due to famine, war, poverty, or natural disaster. Yet few know the story of the man behind the mission.

Gospel Communications is launching an online volunteer matching site in partnership with TechMission. The goal of the site is to match Christians with volunteer opportunities in ministries serving under-resourced communities.

The American College of Pediatricians carefully reviewed the available research on corporal punishment and concludes, in its position statement on the subject, that disciplinary spanking by parents can be effective when properly used.

(NOTE: This story is taken verbatim from a recent posting on www.cbnnews.com. It addresses the phenomenal following of a video shown extensively at the 2007 Winterfest events, produced by the Church of God International Youth and Christian Education Department.)

Depending on who you talk to in Caracas, President Hugo Chávez is either a socialist messiah or a demonic tyrant. He quotes the Bible yet he incites violence. He talks of liberating the poor and enjoys their support, yet he is best friends with the world’s dictators—including Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Lake Mary, FL–SpiritLed Woman magazine,which grew out of Charisma Women’s Conferences held in Florida, is shifting from print to the Internet.

By Ed Thomas, OneNewsNow.com

A public-interest law firm that specializes in First Amendment and religious free-speech cases has sent a letter to the school district in Cumberland County, North Carolina, advising its superintendent that the district didn’t have to implement a new policy that bans community groups from leaving Bibles outside its elementary school campuses.

A patriarch and leader of the Church of God in Japan was inducted into the Church of God Theological Seminary’s Hall of Prophets. Kazumoto Yatsuzuka, pastor of Tokyo’s Shimomaruko Zion Church and national overseer of the denomination, accompanied by his wife, Akemi, was honored by the establishment of an endowment scholarship in his name.

One of the longest running religious radio programs in the country will bring its broadcast to a close at the end of the year. “The Calvary Hour,” hosted by Bill Detweiler, will air its final broadcast on Sunday, December 30, 2007, after 71 years of broadcasting.