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Over 13,000 attendees turned out for the latest “Hearts on Fire Student Conference” at LeConte Center in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. The event spanned two days from November 21 to 22nd, with 290 students making decisions for Christ. Another 260 re-committed their lives to Jesus, and 52 were baptized. “There were many highlights, but my favorite is…

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A recent Washington Post article is highlighting the growing trend of young children stepping up to preach. Eight-year-old Ester Souza from Votuporanga, Brazil steps up to preach at her father’s small, rural church. In 2020, this would have seemed like a dream. Souza was suffering from a kidney infection, receiving hemodialysis nearly every day, and…

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A new Communio study is highlighting the important role family plays in developing a child’s faith. The study began as a response to a Pew Research Center study that found that 28% of U.S. adults were religiously unaffiliated. Communio surveyed more than 16,000 church-going adults on family habits while growing up. The study, presented in…

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A Maine mother is fighting a court order that prohibits her from taking her 12-year-old daughter to church. In 2024, during a custody battle, a Maine lower court ruled that Emily Bickford could not take her daughter to a Calvary Chapel church over objections from her daughter’s father, who asserted that the church’s biblical teachings…

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If a stranger called you and said she needed baby formula for her starving infant, would you go to a store and buy her some? That’s not a hypothetical. It’s a real question that a real woman posed to American churches in recent weeks, while the longest U.S. government shutdown in history cut food assistance…

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