Former Church of God General Overseer Dr. R. Lamar Vest will deliver the address at Lee University’s winter commencement ceremony on Saturday, December 17. An alumnus of Lee, Vest also served as the school’s president for two years, 1984-86.

“Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction …”

Gospel for Asia-supported workers shared the love of Christ with more than 1,000 children in northern India during the country’s annual Children’s Day celebrations recently. Workers organized several special programs to recognize and honor the importance of children of all ages, celebrating their extraordinary abilities while highlighting their eternal value to God.

Evangelist Alveda King (Director of Civil Rights for the Unborn), Dr. Day Gardner (President of National Black Pro-Life Union), Rev. Dean Nelson (Board Chair of the Douglass Foundation) and Rev. Walter Hoye (Founder of Issues 4 Life) invite one and all as we celebrate the true reason for the season which is the birth of Jesus Christ.

Last week was a deadly and disaster filled week, wildfires in Georgia, Tennessee and North Carolina followed by deadly tornadoes and damaging thunderstorms in Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee. As each disaster struck, Operation Compassion was there to help survivors piece their lives back together.

Parents are deeply concerned about an After School Satan Club that targets children as young as five scheduled to open at Point Defiance Elementary School in Tacoma, Washington, on Wednesday, December 14.

The Franklin (PA) City Council has elected to maintain a Nativity display in Bandstand Park despite an anonymous demand letter received on Monday from two local residents in Seneca. The letter’s authors, “RM, SJ and family,” copied the email to the atheist group Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) and stated that a Nativity display is a violation of church and state and should be removed from Bandstand Park.

Bill Donohue comments on Donald Trump’s friendly attitude toward religion:

In the last two weeks tragedy has struck in three different ways in a small pocket of southeast Tennessee and northeast Alabama. All three of the tragedies made national headlines and the local Church of God pastors, agencies and affiliates were prominent in relief and recovery.