Tennessee businessmen Carey V. Brown and Steve Steele, who pledged to help raise and contribute $1 billion “to help the least of these” through their newly-founded Covenant Values Foundation in March, today paid the first major installment of that pledge.

Trinity Broadcasting Network, the world’s largest religious broadcaster and America’s most watched faith channel, announced that WSFJ-TV, its full-power TV station in Columbus, Ohio, has completed a significant upgrade that includes a new studio facility and an expansion to five of TBN’s premier Christian networks.

A summer project has united a Nashville community who came together to build a state-of-the-art classroom that is being shipped to Rwanda.

Heading into the 74th Church of God International General Assembly next week in Orlando, Church of God Communications announces upgraded sites and a new “app” to keep up with the latest news and information.

When Église Nouvelle Vie (New Life Church) opened its doors in 1993 on the south shore of Montreal, 50 saints called the charismatic church home. Today, it’s become an army of more than 5,000 service-minded believers making a difference in a nation where less than 20 percent of the population attends a church service on a regular basis.

Madeline Mims has served as an Olympic chaplain for 24 years. When she travels to London for the 2012 Games, it will be her seventh time to fill that role. But strangely, as experienced as the former gold medalist is, she has no idea what to expect.

Please don’t ignore the mandate to disciple young people.

Several groups are staging events prior to the Church of God International General Assembly, scheduled for next week July 24-27 at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida.

Marking good news for churches and nonprofits, the number of donors giving online has jumped to nearly 60 percent. So says a national study of online giving commissioned by Dunham+Company.