“Tuesday, Meeting here tonight…. Ruth Bishop, Joel L. Bishop, Helen Swanson, Rufus Hulbert, Father, Mother, Harold, Helga, Grace and I joined in on the Church of God tonight. Walkers, [Reinholdt] Klaudt and Helen [Swanson] stayed all night,” Clara Peterson (1905-1942) wrote in her diary on May 28, 1929.

All Christian book readers are invited to vote for the 2012 Christian Small Publisher Book of the Year Award.

Precept Ministries International announced a transition in key management roles today as founders, Jack and Kay Arthur, although continuing in their other duties, officially step down in their roles as Co-CEOs of the ministry.

Recently, Crossroads International Church and the European Theological Seminary, associated with the Church of God, helped the German Youth Board host the Wake Up Youth Conference.

The Heiban Bible College, a pastor training school constructed and dedicated by Samaritan’s Purse in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan, was bombed by the Sudanese Air Force on Wednesday afternoon. Two buildings were destroyed.

International Youth and Discipleship, along with Pathway Press, announces the 2011 winner of the annual Teacher of the Year award.

The couple who was honored last year as the Longest Married Couple in the United States by Worldwide Marriage Encounter has been featured in a two page article in the new JC Penney magazine. Marshall & Winnie Kuykendall of Lordsburg, New Mexico will be married 83 years on Valentine’s Day.

As President Obama and much of official Washington, D.C. gather on Thursday for the 59th National Prayer Breakfast, religious voices aligned with “Occupy DC” are hosting their own rival “People’s Prayer Breakfast.”

Under the theme, “Commemorating the Past – Envisioning the Future,” the North American (U.S.A. and Canada) missions bicentennial is being celebrated in Salem and Boston, Massachusetts on February 6, 2012.