For The New Year, Neil H. Brandt of The Messiah Network promotes God and country through “Your Perfect Prayer To God” and a “Born To America” video. Neil is asking all followers to lawfully meet at their City Hall and share The Prayer with their community on Perfect Prayer Day, Wednesday February 12th at 1:00 PM all time zones.

I remember a scene from our family story during our early days of missionary service. As a young family in our first term, my wife and I were determined that we would involve our two-year old toddler in family Bible reading and prayer every night before bedtime. “Little Man” was my designated nickname for him, used most everywhere we went. Seeking to involve him in family worship one evening, I sent him with the commission, “Little Man, bring Daddy the Bible.”

Oklahoma City, OK–The New York-based Satanic Temple prematurely released design plans for a Satanist monument it hopes to place on the Oklahoma state Capitol grounds.

Christian Women Lifestyle xPress Online Magazine (“CWLxPress”), one of the world’s only online Christian publications targeted expressly to women with a testimony tell, announced today that its Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Deanetta Thompson, will expand the ministry by conducting interviews with other media outlets.

January 7, 2014–The 75th Church of God International General Assembly will take place on July 29 – August 1, 2014 and will be held in Orlando, Florida at the Orange County Convention Center. Registration for the event and accommodations is now open on the Church of God website, www.churchofgod.org.

A small delicate silver cross hangs around Mint’s neck, a charm she reaches for nervously from time to time as she speaks.

Israel’s Christian population continued to grow in 2013, increasing by 3,000 people over the last year.

January 6, 2014–Cleveland, TN—For the second consecutive year, a live Bible reading is taking place at the Church of God International Offices in Cleveland, Tennessee. The multi-day event began at 6:00 a.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST) this morning and marks the kick-off to the 2014 READ Initiative, a program to encourage reading the Bible from Genesis to Revelation in 2014.

It is hard to imagine that something of the following nature could take place, but it did: An 18-year-old has been charged in the brutal rape and beating of a 70-year old nun in the United Sates (reported on December 13, 2013). According to the report, she was walking in a parking lot behind the church when she was approached by a man who choked her, punched her, then threw her to the ground where she was assaulted and raped.