Founded in 1956, Our Daily Bread, an RBC Ministries publication, began publishing daily devotional thoughts as a resource for readers to spend time each day in God’s Word. Nearly six decades later, the publication, which is distributed in 150 countries around the globe, adapts for the digital age with the introduction of a free mobile application.

Do you consider yourself a leader, dad? You may or may not be in a leadership position in your career, and you may or may not be naturally wired that way. But I believe you are leader if you’re a father. It’s a leadership position, for sure.

Iran carries alarming rates of unemployment, heroin addiction, and suicide. These are the markers of a nation desperate for hope. Almost 80 million people live here. But how can God’s Word reach them under strict censorship and surveillance? Most Iranians have never even held a Bible.

globalConnect, a brief video newsmagazine, will launch on the Church of God World Missions website, www.cogwm.org, this week. Viewers are invited to visit the site and sample the new, free publication.

Gospel for Asia (www.gfa.org) plans to drill 5,000 water wells across India and South Asia over the course of this next year for those struggling to find clean water. GFA is highlighting its “Jesus Wells” ministry as World Water Day approaches on March 21.

To help as many as possible church leaders “rethink” evangelism, Exponential has announced plans for a high-quality live webcast from the upcoming Exponential East 2014 conference in Orlando. The webcast is free to anyone who registers for it.

The Foundation for Pentecostal Scholarship (TFFPS) has conferred its 2014 awards for excellence in Pentecostal scholarship. TFFPS president, Robert Graves, announced the awards during the 2014 Conference of the Society for Pentecostal Studies convening at Evangel University, March 6–8. One book award and two article awards were conferred.

Operation Compassion, an independent benevolent agency with roots in the Church of God, recently announced a successful drive to clothe and place shoes upon the feet of some of the world’s most vulnerable children.

EchoLight Studios, led by CEO Rick Santorum, has partnered for the first time with the Hallmark Channel to premiere its newest film, “The Redemption of Henry Myers.” Debuting on the Hallmark Channel March 23, 9 p.m. EDT/8 p.m. CDT, the movie challenges viewers with the question, “Can a person really change his ways?”