Cleveland, TN–A three-day revival and prayer convocation beginning tomorrow, Tuesday, January 9, 2018, will take place from the Church of God International Offices.

Oscar-considered filmmaker Richard Rossi’s feature ‘Canaan Land,’ tops a list of most-anticipated independent films of 2018 that includes a documentary about Robin Williams, a retelling of Hamlet by Claire McCarthy, and the latest films from Spike Lee and Lars Von Trier.

The 2018 March for Life Chicago will draw large crowds (currently estimated to be 6,000 +) of pro-life advocates from across Illinois and the Midwest. On Sunday, January 14, 2018, people from all walks of life will come together on Chicago’s Federal Plaza to proclaim the sanctity of human life and call for an end to abortion as they march through the Loop beginning at 2 p.m. (Central). Archbishop of Chicago, Cardinal Blase J. Cupich and the Chicago Bears’ co-owner Pat McCaskey are among the featured speakers.

This weekend congregations across the Church of God will celebrate one of the most iconic documents of the denomination as “Declaration of Faith Sunday” takes place in the Church of God on January 7, 2018.

At least once a year, Christians are reminded of Jesus’ prayer for his disciples that “they may be one so that the world may believe” (see John 17.21). Hearts are touched and Christians come together to pray for their unity. Congregations and parishes all over the world exchange preachers or arrange special ecumenical celebrations and prayer services. The event that touches off this special experience is the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity.

Iranian-American Pastor Reza Safa, a former radical Muslim and founder of the Farsi-language Christian network TBN Nejat Television, has issued an urgent request for Christians around the world to pray for Iran and its people as political unrest rages in the Muslim controlled nation. Since December 28th tens of thousands of Iranian citizens have taken to the streets of the northern city of Mashhad and elsewhere to protest political oppression, with at least 20 individuals killed in violence.

January 4, 2018–Cleveland, Tennessee–Tennessee State Representative Kevin Brooks, R-Cleveland, has announced he will not seek a seventh term in the Tennessee House of Representatives in 2018.

For the sixth consecutive year the Church of God is offering a daily Bible reading program which advances the reader through the entire Bible in one year.

I look forward to the beginning of each year because I set aside some days for special prayer. I don’t like to finish one year and start another without taking time to thank Jesus for the ways He blessed me during the past 12 months and to ask Him for supernatural strength for the next season.