This Sunday, September 7, Church of God congregations around the world are being asked to take five minutes and pray for the global harvest with a focus on unreached peoples.

Sharefaith announces the launch of SharefaithKids, a cloud-based children’s ministry curriculum. The new Sunday school resource is fully available to churches worldwide today.

The Methodist Church in Britain is hemorrhaging members and has been described by a leading religious affairs commentator as “a bit like an iceberg that’s just crumbling into the sea.”

Did you know that America has seen darker days in the past than those we are facing right now? Two hundred years ago we were in the midst of the War of 1812. Americans, struggling once again to keep their independence, were in dire straits. Then God intervened and a series of events occurred that saved America and led to the writing of the Star Spangled Banner.

When returning Lee University students arrived on campus for the fall 2014 semester, they found the Southern end of their campus transformed from the way they left it in May. The property and grounds of the former First Baptist Church of Cleveland underwent extensive alterations, all of which are still in progress.

What is finished is the new $10 Million Communication Arts Building. The gleaming new structure sits majestically on the corner of Ocoee Street and Central Avenue, with the primary entrance facing a newly expanded Church Street “boulevard.”

About 10 years ago, after I returned from a trip to Nigeria, I began itching all over my body. At first I assumed it was an allergic reaction to a food or detergent. But I had no rash, and my doctor was baffled. He told me there was no apparent cause for the itching. My skin was crawling. Lotion gave me no relief. Was this a spiritual attack?

Cleveland, Tenn.— Cry out America is experiencing a tremendous increase of registrations from intercessors, pastors, churches, ministries, and citizens willing to lead public prayer gatherings on Wednesday, September 11, 2014.

The National Day of Remembrance for Aborted Children on Saturday, September 13, 2014, was first marked in the modern era last fall, but memorialization of society’s tiniest innocent victims is not a new idea. Citizens for a Pro-life Society, Priests for Life, and the Pro-life Action League have reached back to ancient Rome for the inspiration behind this solemn national event. Dug into the walls of the earliest Christian catacombs in the outskirts of Rome are countless small tombs, only a foot or two across. These are the burial places of infants cast out of their pagan homes and left to die of starvation and exposure – a common practice of that time. Members of the early church, charged by Christ to love all their neighbors, offered these newborn sacrifices to Roman cruelty the only act of love they could – that of burying their little bodies and mourning for them in prayer.

Art Rhodes, CEO of the Church of God Benefits Board, offers the following update on a case involving the potential effect of court action on ministerial housing allowances.