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The Office of USA Missions in the Division of World Evangelization of the Church of God has announced plans for enCOURAGE:2013—A Conference for Women in Ministry, to be held August 8-10, 2013 at the North Cleveland Church of God in Cleveland, Tennessee.

GOODNESS REIGNS, Inc. has announced the top winners of its 2013 faith-based short film contest while also launching its People’s Choice Voting Campaign giving all viewers a chance to pick their favorite submissions.

Recently launched website, www.thechurchyard.net, aims to become the largest provider of faith-based, Christian content on the internet.

Social media that provides missionaries unprecedented connections with home also comes with inherent dangers, according the latest issue of “Unfinished,” the award-winning quarterly magazine of The Mission Society.

Lee University will hold spring graduation exercises this weekend, May 3 and 4, 2013 on the Cleveland, Tennessee campus.

Randall E. Howard, general overseer of the Church of God of Prophecy, has resigned according to a release from the Cleveland, Tennessee-based denomination. Howard, who has served the organization since 2006, is taking a ministry sabbatical for a season of spiritual renewal and to focus on personal issues within his family.

National Christian leaders recently joined the Awakening America Alliance—an alliance formed six years ago from a broad coalition of Evangelical, Pentecostal and Charismatic ministries—at a historic leadership summit in Jacksonville, Florida. Leaders at the summit focused on American history while evaluating and engaging the future with regard to awakening.

It could be called The Abominable Dr. Gosnell. Or perhaps Nightmare on Lancaster Avenue. Or maybe something as provocative as Scissors.