June 5, 2008
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – The Associated Church Press (ACP) has granted Alliance Life two Awards of Excellence, the association’s highest honor. The awards were given for Best in Class in the Denominational Magazine category (for the second consecutive year) and Best in Class for Magazine Cover. The latter was awarded for the [...]
May 14, 2008
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE PLATTSBURGH, New York – This summer, Bruce Overstreet, pastor of North Country Alliance Church in Plattsburgh, New York, will bicycle from California to Maine to benefit The Christian and Missionary Alliance’s (C&MA) Koutiala Hospital for Women and Children in Mali, West Africa. “The Republic of Mali is considered one of the most [...]
April 4, 2008
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Clement Hoober of Columbia, Pennsylvania, has been appointed regional consultant in eastern Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia for The Orchard Foundation. Hoober previously served on the Eastern Pennsylvania District Investment/Finance Committee. An active layman in the Columbia (Pa.) Christian Fellowship church, Hoober, a CPA, completed 19 years as [...]
March 11, 2008
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – The Christian and Missionary Alliance has launched a new program that offers young adults the opportunity to experience cross-cultural missions firsthand. Praxis is a network of C&MA ministry sites with the same purpose: to develop a generation of leaders who can impact the world by living out authentic [...]
January 22, 2008
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE After years of obstacles that hindered expansion of Christian radio ministry, Gospel Radio Burkina has grown from one station to four in Bobo-Dioulasso, the second-largest urban center in Burkina Faso, West Africa. Eric Eshbaugh, who oversees Christian radio for The Christian and Missionary Alliance (C&MA) in West Africa, is helping to establish [...]
September 20, 2007
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – Christian and Missionary Alliance congregations around the United States are taking new approaches to ministry, moving beyond just talking about Christ’s love to actually showing it. Medford Neighborhood Church in Medford, Oregon; Crossroads Church in Perry, Iowa; New Beginnings Christian Fellowship in Maywood, Illinois; and Acts 29 Fellowship [...]
September 5, 2007
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 5, 2007 COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – After an exceptional year of earnings on invested reserves, The Alliance Development Fund (ADF), a support ministry of The Christian and Missionary Alliance (C&MA), gave a gift of more than $1 million to Alliance churches and other ministries that have ADF loans. Each ministry received [...]
August 28, 2007
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE VALLEJO, Calif. – Adolescent children in California who have lost parents to AIDS are finding hope through a strategic Alliance outreach. Camp Hope hosts children from the Vallejo, California, area, many of whom are in foster care. Terrance Nichols, pastor of the northern California city’s New Hope Church Community and president of [...]
July 25, 2007
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ORLANDO, Fla. – The AIDS crisis, famine, unclean drinking water, and inadequate medical care are just a few of the daunting problems facing Africa. And students in The Christian and Missionary Alliance (C&MA) are responding to the continent’s overwhelming physical and spiritual needs. At LIFE 2007, a C&MA youth event, 7,500 high [...]
July 19, 2007
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – After a U.S. missions investment of more than 70 years, the Christian and Missionary Alliance (C&MA) national church in Gabon is moving full circle from being a recipient of Christian missions to being a partner in sending missionaries to unreached peoples. “These churches are fully organized with official [...]