Every summer, The Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association (OGCMA), a Methodist organization founded in 1869 in Ocean Grove NJ, offers a fulsome program of Christian worship and family entertainment open to Christians of all denominations. Below is an overview of some of OGCMA’s summer-long religious events. For more information, visit www.oceangrove.org.

Christians are busier and more distracted than ever. To help them incorporate vital spiritual habits into their technology-centric lives, Zondervan is introducing the “NIV Lifehacks Bible” in June 2016.

This year, the 76th Church of God International General Assembly (GA16) will be more family-friendly than ever. This will be especially true when it comes to children and teens.

Liberty Counsel has demanded that Desert Rose Elementary School correct an outrageous violation of a first grader’s constitutional rights. The situation started with an encouraging note and Bible verse from mom Christina Zavala, tucked into a packed lunch for her little boy (“C”). The seven-year-old boy read the note and verse, and showed them to his friends during lunch time at school. Mrs. Zavala’s daily note for her son soon turned into an expectation by the other children during lunch, who excitedly begged C for copies of the notes, which grew to include short stories from the Bible to provide context for the verses.

It isn’t difficult to become overwhelmed.

Answering the call to ministry is not taking a job or finding a career. So many times individuals will go from one ministry to another trying to find the perfect fit for them.

People for Care and Learning (PCL), a humanitarian organization headquartered in Cleveland, Tennessee, and working primarily in Cambodia and neighboring Southeast Asian nations, has announced a change of top leadership that will take place in coming months.

Author and speaker Ruth Graham, daughter of famed evangelist Billy Graham, has voiced her support for the Ark of Noah foundation, www.ArkofNoah.org, asking the public to help fund its crowdfunding efforts. The life-size replica of the Bible’s Noah’s Ark is preparing to take sail from The Netherlands traveling to Brazil during the 2016 Olympic Games and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for the Paralympic summer games. From there it will visit many other harbors on its journey through South, Central and North America. While still in the early planning phase, desired ports to visit include: Montevideo and Buenos Aires, Havana, Panama, Columbia and then off to the United States: San Diego, Long Beach, San Francisco and Seattle.

Dear God, It’s Maddie Bell is an endearing story that encourages us to reach out to those in crisis and to trust God with the simple faith of a child. A moving and well written story with well-defined characters that will tug at your heartstrings.