With more than half a million dollars in donations received and the on-site assessments completed, Church of God Ministries (CGM) calls for individuals and congregations to sign up for work teams to go to Haiti as part of the relief and recovery operations. These teams will provide the labor force to work side by side with the Haitian people to complete the projects identified in phase two of the strategic response plan developed by the Disaster Relief Committee (DRC).

By Sam Collins

We Christians tend to pride ourselves on our devotion to the truth. Nevertheless, sometimes our truthfulness is a bit elastic, like people who write ad copy claiming that someone with the face of a pit bull can be transformed into a Penelope Cruz facsimile simply by glopping on generous quantities of some overpriced beauty goo.

Take the matter of seeking God and the things of God. To hear us talk and testify, one might think that our desire to bask in God’s presence never ebbs or wanes. And I think we are largely sincere in expressing what we wish were the case. But, in reality, we human beings are easily distracted. For that reason, our desire for God can rise and fall like the nausea-inducing deck of a ship at sea.

by Maddie Follis

The third time’s a charm, or so the old saying goes. That is the hope for the third annual Global Communion that will take place at this summer’s North American Convention (NAC) in Anderson, Indiana. The first two Global Communions were great, but this year the organizers hope to engage even more people in this powerful worship service of celebration and Communion; last year, people in thirty-two countries participated.

Hundreds are believed dead following a devastating mudslide that destroyed communities on the slopes of Mount Elgon, in eastern Uganda, on Sunday, February 28. To respond to this immediate need and help alleviate the suffering, Church of God Ministries is sending $5,000 in Disaster Relief Funds to career missionaries Tim and Colleen Stevenson.

By Che-Che Mobley

“Serving Christ through serving women and equipping them for ministry” has been a tag line for the women’s ministries of the Church of God for many years. Although this is a blanket statement that is all-inclusive, making a conscious effort to put these words into action requires intentionality and effort. Several countries in which there is a viable Church of God presence have their own productive and active women’s ministries. Yet the ministry to women through the Church of God in the United States has been focused mainly on those who are English-speaking.

By David Miller

Church of God believers in Chile spent several anxious days following Saturday’s devastating earthquake, unable to learn the fate of pastors José y Marcela Cisterna and their 3 children. The family had traveled to Los Angeles, Chile, a small city near the quake’s epicenter, to visit relatives. Due to damage to the country’s telecommunications and transportation systems, contact with both the Cisternas and their extended family was impossible.

By Rob Ginter—Staff Writer

Bluebank (KY)—First Church of God’s youth pastor has compassion for serving not only youth but also the addicted, downtrodden and disabled. Dallas McKinney is not only a youth pastor but is employed at the Morehead Inspiration Center (MIC) and Community Alternatives of Kentucky (CAKY).

“At first it was just a job with Community Alternatives but it quickly became more than that,” McKinney said. “They’re people that can’t take care of themselves and they are in situations that they didn’t really plan on. I feel like I’ve been blessed with more than enough. I’ve been blessed to have a good home, good parents, a good fiancée, and a really good life up to this point. I’ve been able to go to school and have been pretty financially secure; God has kept me pretty safe.

Church of God Ministries announces that $5,000 in hunger relief funds will be sent immediately  to Chile in response to the earthquake that hit this South American country on Saturday, February 27. The money will be provided to church leaders there to help respond to the critical need for food and water for the victims of this tragedy.

The earthquake that hit Chile on Saturday, February 27, has claimed at least 708 lives, according to the latest BBC reports. Michelle Bachelet, president of Chile, says the death toll is expected to rise further. Two million people had been affected by the 8.8 quake, one of the most severe ever recorded and the largest to hit Chile in fifty years. Reconstruction of homes, highways and public buildings could cost tens of billions of dollars.

Warner Pacific welcomes author and Christian activist Shane Claiborne

What does it mean to live justly in an unjust world? Join us as we explore this important question with Shane Claiborne, Christian activist, author of the bestselling book "The Irresistible Revolution," and founding partner of The Simple Way, a faith community in the inner city of Philadelphia that has "helped birth and connect radical faith communities around the world."