World Missions kicked off a busy General Assembly week of events on Monday with the pre-assembly conference and the awards celebration banquet.  The pre-assembly conference, themed Mission Possible, featured inspiring messages from missionaries Ronnie Hepperly (Southeast Asia), Terry and Beth Trussell (Uruguay), and Timothy Gbo (Togo); along with powerful testimonies on prioritizing missions from pastors […]

Ruth Crawford Lindsey was born on December 2nd, 1935, in Vanndale, Arkansas to Rivers and Theodora Crawford and passed to her eternal reward on March 7, 2023. Her childhood was spent with her four sisters and her loving parents. She graduated as valedictorian from Vanndale High School in 1953 and later earned two bachelor’s degree in Biblical Studies and English …

by R. Terrell Brinson You may order Miracles of Missions from Pathway Bookstore online or by phone at +1(800)553-8506 (100% of proceeds from this book are designated to Church of God World Missions projects). Chapter One: Lord, Give Me Spanish Chapter Two: Cuatro Palos, Nicaragua Chapter Three: I Can See! I Can See! Chapter Four: Jesus Saves, Jesus Fills, and …

Orphan Sunday—Why Should It Be Only One Sunday Each Year? The Christian community designates one Sunday each year as Orphan Sunday. The day is specifically designed to observe and bring awareness to individuals, families, churches, and para-church organizations to hear the distressing cry of 153 million orphans around the world. But why just one day a year we […]

Rodger and Saundra Wikelund, along with all residents of their ministry, Emma’s Kids, welcomed a ministry group from citylife church in Tampa this month. Twenty-eight adults and kids from citylife made the trip to Zambia. They brought medical professionals who provided quality health services to members of the community. The team conducted VBS with the […]

Cheryl Susan Justice, 68, passed away on January 23, 2023. She was born on November 14, 1954, to the late William Homer Ridenour and Charlotte Michael Ridenour. Cheryl has lived in Bradley County since 2012, moving here from Rhea County where her husband pastored the Dayton Church of God (2000-2011). Prior to that she lived in Collinwood, TN (1994-1996 and …

Bridges to people and culture do not work any longer because they never touch the water of troubled cross-cultural issues. For the same reason, contextual theology does not work any more – once faced with the deep cross-cultural crises of faith and conviction, it sinks with no hope. We have long observed the collapse of the “Western […]