Approximately ten years ago, a Chattanooga, Tenn. dentist approached Operation Compassion with an idea to help Orphanage Emmanuel in Comayaguela, Honduras. The vision was to send raw wheat to the orphanage, teach them to mill it and use the flour to bake goods in support of the more than 600 children housed there. A partnership was born and Dr. Don Reynolds and Operation Compassion have been sending wheat ever since.

President Obama turned both personal and preachy Tuesday (April 7) during his annual Easter Prayer Breakfast, which he has hosted at the White House six times since he was elected.

By Thom Rainer

Nine out of 10. That’s a lot.

Nine out of 10 churches in America have an average worship attendance of less than 350. And that percentage has not changed significantly for many years. Yet the unchurched pool of persons is increasing in most communities. There are people yet to be reached.

Kansas became the first state to ban a common second trimester abortion procedure when Governor Sam Brownback, a Republican, on Tuesday signed into a law an act to halt what lawmakers said are “dismemberment abortions.”

Robert Madu will be the Friday evening speaker at the Ministerial Internship Program (MIP) Commissioning Celebration on May 15 at 7:00 p.m. at the North Cleveland Church of God.

Pope Francis called on the world to give tangible help to persecuted Christians on Monday, highlighting the plight of people he described as modern “martyrs” after nearly 150 people were killed by Islamist militants in Kenya.

The Bible App by YouVersion recorded a 248 percent increase in Easter story reading in countries around the world this week. The U.S., South Africa, Brazil, Great Britain and South Korea were the top five countries reading the Bible during Holy Week. The countries that experienced the largest growth in readership from Easter 2014 to Easter 2015 included South Sudan, Lithuania, Palestine and Niger.

Dr. David Cooper, senior pastor of Mount Paran Central and a member of the International Executive Council, has written, How to Live Spiritually in the 21st Century, in conjunction with the Church of God Division of Education.

Sevierville, TN — Members from the Valley Station Church of God in Louisville, Kentucky recently visited Smoky Mountain Children’s Home bearing a most unique gift—a five-gallon galvanized bucket full of pennies, approximately twenty nine thousand (29,000), worth two hundred ninety dollars ($290).