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Black Friday Becomes Bless Friday® — Bless Friday® Adds New Churches in 4th Year

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Beacon of Light Christian Center, Black Friday, Christmas, Christmas shopping, The Woodlands Community Presbyterian Church

November 18, 2013 at 9:50 am.

HOUSTON /Christian Newswire/ — Since 2010, Houston area churches have provided an alternative to frenzied Christmas shopping on the day after Thanksgiving. Continuing this tradition, Memorial Drive Presbyterian Church, Beacon of Light Christian Center, St. John the Divine Episcopal Church, St. Francis Episcopal Church, and The Woodlands Community Presbyterian Church, are each scheduling community service […]

Donations pouring in for Philippines; but it may not be enough

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Charitable aid, Churches disaster, Disaster recovery, disaster relief, International aid

November 14, 2013 at 12:56 pm.

By Gary Strauss/USA Today RELIGION NEWS SERVICE (RNS) — Americans are opening their wallets and providing financial relief to the typhoon-battered Philippines at a pace that may be the third-highest ever for an overseas disaster, but still not enough to satisfy needs. As Philippine officials try to get aid to desperate Typhoon Haiyan victims, relief organizations […]

Tax Analysts Receives IRS exempt organizations training material following lawsuit

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Church filing, Church taxes, Tax filing, tax issues

November 13, 2013 at 11:52 am.

FALLS CHURCH, Va. /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Tax Analysts, the nonprofit provider of federal, state, and international tax news and analysis, announced yesterday that in response to its Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the IRS, the Service has released nearly 3,000 pages of training materials used for guidance by the exempt organizations determinations office. The documents […]

Baptists among forces helping Philippines

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Baptist recovery, Disaster aid, Disaster recovery, Typhoon assistance, Typhoon recovery

November 12, 2013 at 12:03 pm.

By Jeff Brumley Associated Baptist Press — The Baptist World Alliance, Cooperative Baptist Fellowship and American Baptist Churches USA are just a few of the organizations urging members to pray and give generously to victims of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines. Baptists and other religious groups are kicking into high gear with financial and material […]

Struggling houses of worship get a ‘faith lift’ in the new National Geographic Channel series CHURCH RESCUE

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Church reality, Church rescue, Church TV, Reality show

November 8, 2013 at 1:46 pm.

WASHINGTON /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Religious institutions are the foundation of many communities across America. The United States is home to more than 300,000 religious congregations, and nearly four out of five Americans identify themselves with some type of religious belief. To practice these beliefs, people from all walks of life descend upon urban, rural and city […]

Despite ‘huge’ hesitancy, seminaries branch out in online degrees

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online education, online seminary, Online training, Pastor training

November 8, 2013 at 12:14 pm.

RELIGION NEWS SERVICE (RNS) — Theological education has increasingly left brick-and-mortar schools and headed back to congregations and family homes as more seminarians study online. “The old move — uproot your family, get a new job, move to the seminary — that model isn’t working for so many people today,” said Ronald Hawkins, vice provost […]

Holiday giving survey shows young men most likely to give the gift of charity

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Christmas gifts, Christmas giving, Church gifts, church giving, Holiday giving

November 7, 2013 at 10:57 am.

SEATTLE / World Vision — Headlines this year have not been kind to young men — often tagged as selfish Millennials, significantly more likely to still live with mom and dad, less likely than women to be enrolled in U.S. colleges. But, a new holiday giving survey from World Vision shows that men ages 18-34 […]

Buyer’s remorse for pastor search committees

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November 6, 2013 at 9:58 am.

By Marion D. Aldridge ASSOCIATED BAPTIST PRESS — Members of pastor search committees often experience buyer’s remorse. Buyer’s remorse is when a person or a family has made a large purchase — a house or a car, for example — and then begin to second-guess their decision. Regret sets in. “Maybe we spent too much…” […]

Inviting young adults to be leaders

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Church millennials, Engaging youth, Millennials church, Young leaders Young church

November 6, 2013 at 9:45 am.

By Michael J. O’Loughlin RELIGION NEWS SERVICE — Over at Duke Divinity School’s Faith & Leadership, I write about the need to include young adults in positions of leadership in faith communities. From the essay: Nowhere is the church’s “maturity” more evident than in communities of women religious, the Catholic nuns who are responsible for […]

Faculty Opening for Professor of Counseling at RTS/Charlotte

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November 6, 2013 at 9:31 am.

CHARLOTTE, N.C., Nov. 5, 2013 /Christian Newswire/ — Dr. Michael Kruger, president of Reformed Theological Seminary in Charlotte, NC, is pleased to announce a faculty opening for a professor of counseling. In addition to teaching counseling classes, this individual will be the director for new counseling degree programs at RTS Charlotte. These programs would include […]