Pastors, church staff, and lay leaders searching for ways to improve their church’s bereavement, pastoral care, and outreach ministries have an easy new solution: a fresh, updated edition of GriefShare, a 13-week support group course that ministers to those mourning the loss of a loved one.

Organizers of the international Back to Church Sunday® movement want to know: What’s your church story? How was your life blessed by your experiences at a church?

Bishop Glen W. Anniskette, his wife Susie, missionary/translator Willa Smith and friend Mick Toole from Ketchikan, AK joined together for an incredible two week mission trip from one end of Cuba to the other and back again.

Church of God Communications is pleased to announce the launch of a new website today on the main Church of God website, www.churchofgod.org. The new site replaces the General Assembly (GA2014) site that went live in January and is geared toward bringing the latest in news and information about GA2014 which begins next week in Orlando. The site can be reached directly via www.ga14.org.

What does a monument erected to an insect in Alabama in 1919 have to do with a young lady from Louisiana who was injured in the Colorado theater shootings in 2012? As strange as it seems the two became entwined when a soon to be author, Rhett Barbaree had a providential encounter with Bonnie Kate Pourciau of Baton Rouge, La three months prior to the theater shooting.

Over two-thirds of American families today are affected by substance addictions. Even worse, these addictive behaviors often lead to crime, but as few as 11 percent of prisoners receive proper treatment to help them achieve recovery.

Several villages in central India have outlawed the open practice of Christianity—a move of questionable legality yet one that worries church leaders who say it already has encouraged anti-Christian violence.

Pathway Press has announced today the release of “Called to Serve,” a compilation of biographies of all past general overseers of the Church of God. Launch of the publication coincides with the upcoming Church of God International General Assembly, which begins July 29 in Orlando, Florida.

Arizona authorities are probing a series of arson fires at suburban Phoenix churches as possible hate crimes after an apparent arsonist set Bibles alight on church doorsteps, police said on Thursday.