A lone guitar chord echoes across the room as more than a hundred Israeli soldiers rise to their feet to ask for help. With outstretched hands they reach toward the heavens and like David the warrior Psalmist they cry, “We are surrounded by enemies, but you Lord are able to deliver us. With you O Lord, I can be a brave soldier.”

Billy Graham’s remarks given at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., on Friday, Sept. 14, 2001, brought hope and healing to the shocked nation. His words still are still powerful, 13 years later.

The General Overseer’s Office and Church of God Communications has released the fall 2014 issue of Engage. The 60-page document is available exclusively online.

Internationally known evangelist and founder of Christ for all Nations (CfaN) Reinhard Bonnke will host his first-ever Reinhard Bonnke Gospel Crusade at the Greensboro Coliseum in Greensboro, North Carolina, Friday and Saturday. The crusade begins at 7 p.m. both nights, and local churches are urged to help promote the event and bring the lost and hurting.

The popular Instapray application will be partnering with the Day of Prayer for the Peace of Jerusalem (DPPJ), the largest global, grassroots prayer movement focused on prayer for Jerusalem. This year over 500,000 congregations in 175 nations are planning to join in prayer for Jerusalem on Sunday, October 5, 2014. This prayer movement is not affiliated with any one political or denominational slant; rather, it seeks to reflect God’s love and redemptive purpose for all people groups in the Jerusalem region by taking the time to pray for God’s peace and blessings on Jerusalem and all of her inhabitants.

The Gospel Music Heritage Month Foundation (@gmhmonth) is proud to announce that UP (@UPtv) will sponsor and help promote the annual “Evolution of Gospel” celebration at The John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. The sixth annual event commemorates the month of September as Gospel Music Heritage Month (GMHM) and features scintillating performances and special tributes. This year’s honorees include Gospel music legends Yolanda Adams and Kirk Franklin, and former Sen. Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas, who, along with Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), was instrumental in the passage of the resolution that established Gospel Music Heritage Month.

Operation Compassion: A Ministry of Blessing has been helping underserved and poor children, widows, senior adults and single parent families for more than 14 years. From the humble beginnings of $200 and a pick-up truck to deliver product, Operation Compassion has grown into more than $100 million a year non-profit charity.

An unlikely mission field has emerged in the former atheist nation of Albania. For nearly 25 years, from 1967 to 1990, all religious observations throughout the nation were prohibited, and all churches and mosques were closed. But today, The Tide global radio ministry is expanding its programs into Albania to reach people with the message of salvation through Jesus Christ.

Liberty Counsel offered to defend the Allegheny County Council after it received a threatening email from the Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) opposing a proposed display of the national motto, “In God We Trust,” in the County Council meeting room in Pennsylvania.