Tulsa, Okla.—Oral Roberts University (ORU) has announced the launch of a two-week Chinese Leadership Institute to be held, February 7-20, 2016, on the Tulsa campus. The new institute is designed to provide Chinese business leaders with the opportunity to study in the United States and to gain a better understanding of American corporate and ministry practices, leadership and culture. Upon completion of the program, participants will earn a certificate from the University’s new training division—ORU Quest.

In 1995, God began to speak to a young leader in Hyderabad, India, named Satish Kumar, telling him that he would have a very large church, but nothing materialized for the next 10 years.

In its December board meeting, the Church of God USA Missions Board reaffirmed the 3G Outreach Initiative to continue through the year 2016. The twelve-month calendar year program focuses on the Three Great Statements of Jesus: The Great Commitment (Prayer), the Great Commandment (Care), and the Great Commission (Share). It is a month-by-month list of suggestions for the implementation of each of these 3Gs by the local pastor and congregation.

On the first Christmas, the shepherds in Bethlehem learned that Jesus’ birth was a cause for celebration. The angel said in Luke 2:10: “For I bring you good news of great joy, which will be to all people.” It’s too bad Christmas cheer is in low supply these days. I don’t know if it’s due to the mudslinging in this presidential campaign or the warmer-than-usual December, but people in general are angrier, more fearful and more negative than I can ever remember.

Washington state high school football coach suspended for praying on the 50-yard-line after games filed a federal employment discrimination complaint on Tuesday against the district in a case that has fueled the debate in the United States over freedom of – and from – religion in school sports.

I’ve written extensively about protecting the family in ministry. Here’s how you can help to avoid damaging any child growing up in the ministry world.

Lee University student Jordan Smith was named the winner of ‘The Voice’ Season 9 on Tuesday, Dec. 15, after Monday night performances of “Mary, Did You Know,” “Climb Every Mountain,” and “God Only Knows” on the hit NBC reality TV singing competition show.

“Finding your place,” whether as an individual or a church, is a basic human longing, a necessary step toward fulfilling the calling of Christ, and the focus of The Mission Society’s latest issue of its magazine, “Unfinished.” Multiple articles in the Winter 2015 installment demonstrate how a clear understanding of purpose can help individuals and churches work more effectively and with greater joy in God’s kingdom.

We’ve got a whole new generation coming up that knows so little of the Word of God. Pastors have got to do more teaching now than ever before. And yet, with it, they must also have the move of the Holy Spirit that is lacking in the overall church today.