Jesus.net Japan, an Internet evangelism effort to reach millions shaken and still hurting from the March 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear accident, has launched a series of seeker-friendly “stepping stone” web sites in Japan in an effort to lead people to Christ and connect them with a local church. The U.S. entity and English information source for the ministry is Jesus Net Japan (www.jesusnetjapan.org).

When the inspirational historical novel, The Promise of Deer Run, was honored as the Best Romance in the 2012 Los Angeles Book Festival, author Elaine Marie Cooper knew Who to thank.

The Crystal Cathedral has confirmed that it fired three relatives of the Rev. Robert Schuller, the megachurch’s founder, on Tuesday.

Thirty years of almost anything is significant. And thirty years of Holy Spirit directed ministry to young people in the event called Winterfest…is certainly significant!

Church of God Prayer Ministries is sponsoring “The Praying Church Conference,” scheduled for the Church at Liberty Square, on Friday, March 16, beginning at 8:30 a.m. and concluding at 4:00 p.m.

It’s the one day of the year when pews will be fuller, services will be larger, attendance will be greater, and attention will be higher than any other day of the year. It’s Easter Sunday, 2012, the most anticipated day of the year for many churches, and the highlight of the Christian Calendar. Easter Sunday is not just another Sunday.

Christian publishing industry leader Ernest (Ernie) E. Owen, 87, died Feb. 28 in Southern California. The recipient of a 1994 Jordon Lifetime Achievement Award from the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association and a 2000 Life Impact Award from CBA, he served on publishing teams at Warner Press, Fleming H. Revell and Word Publishing, from which he retired in 1989.

A program three years in the making culminated recently in Global Advance’s first Marketplace Mission in Berlin, Germany.

Virginia Beach, VA– Empowered21 USA, in partnership with the Society for Pentecostal Studies, brought select leaders, scholars and next generation voices together at Converge21 USA at Regent University in Virginia Beach, Va. They convened Wednesday, February 29-Saturday, March 3, 2012 for four days of presentations, over 100 practical learning conversations and dynamic general sessions to discuss and chart the future direction of the Spirit-Empowered movement in the United States, which began over 100 years ago.