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After School Director, Roanoke, Va.

Celebrate KIDS! is a faith-based after-school enrichment program designed to meet the academic, physical, social and spiritual needs of children in grades K – 6. We offer a high quality […] The post After School Director, Roanoke, Va. appea... »

PANDEMIC Forces Cancellation of General Assembly

PANDEMIC Forces Cancellation of General Assembly

Church of God General Assembly was cancelled due to a Virus Pandemic. That is exactly what happened to with the Church of God in 1918-1920 during the Influenza. In 1918, a Spanish flu pandemic infected an estimated 500 million people (about one-fifth of the world population) and killed an estimated 20 to 50 million world-wide. In the U.S., there were drastic emergency quarantines; schools, theater... »

Gene P. Phillips, Sr., Hope Mills, N.C.

Rev. Gene P. Phillips, Sr., a pastor and ordained bishop from Hope Mills, N.C., passed away on February 15, 2023. The post Gene P. Phillips, Sr., Hope Mills, N.C. appeared first on Church Of God. »

PENTECOSTAL BABEL

PENTECOSTAL BABEL As we reflect upon Pentecost Sunday, I submit here my recently published article in the preaching journal of Columbia Theological Seminary.  I was pleased that this piece was made the lead article in the Pentecost edition of the Journal for Preachers (just ahead of Walter Brueggemann’s contribution, which made me feel pretty good!).  The article is also a smattering of one of the... »