Blessing our Missionaries on Christmas

Here at The Rock, we support several missionaries across the world. We would like to bless our missionaries with a special Christmas offering. If you would like to give to this cause, over and above your regular missions giving, please compleste an offering envelope at church on Sunday. [...]

Jerry Hames explores the “divide between Christianity and Islam” in this article from the Episcopal News Service:
Episcopal Life Online – ARTS.

Don’t forget – We will be collecting completed shoe boxes for Operation Christmas Child on Sunday November 8th and Sunday November 15th!

Coptic Blogger in Egypt Pressured to Convert in Prison
ISTANBUL (Compass Direct News) – A Coptic Christian blogger in Egypt entering his second year of prison without charge is being pressured to convert to Islam in exchange for his freedom, his attorneys said.
via Coptic Blogger in Egypt Pressured to Convert in Prison | Christianpost.com.

SAO PAULO — More than 1.5 million evangelical Christians joined Brazil’s annual “March for Jesus” on Monday, an event sponsored by a church whose leaders recently returned after being imprisoned in the U.S. for money smuggling.
via The Associated Press: Evangelical march in Brazil draws 1.5 million.