At the start of May, the administrative offices of Maritime Christian College relocated to Sherwood Christian Church in Charlottetown, PEI, Canada. The move coincided with the sale of MCC’s building in Charlottetown, which mainly consisted of dorm rooms and apartments. MCC has switched to an online model. . . . Plus a survey and news briefs. . . .
April 12, 2022
For the past five years, Ekklesia Christian Church in Conway, S.C., has engaged hundreds of people in a post-Easter discipleship program that moves people from spiritual milk to meat, with a goal of baptizing many on Pentecost Sunday.
June 3, 2020
By Chris Moon Louisville’s Northeast Christian Church seized the opportunity. With Kentucky loosening pandemic restrictions slightly, the church quickly organized more than 200 “watch parties”—some would call them 200 new “campuses”—to tune into the church’s worship services this past Sunday. Church members gathered groups of no more than 10 people in homes to worship, pray, and listen to the Sunday sermon. And it certainly was a fitting occasion, since Sunday was Pentecost. “We were just trying to help people look at weekend services a little differently given the state we were in,” said David McKinley, director of marketing and communications
June 6, 2019
All will agree that Pentecost, as described in Acts 2, is foundational to the church. Now, here is an observation (not an accusation): We don’t write or talk about Pentecost as much we used to. It’s true both for our magazine and our churches. The index for Christian Standard’s first 100 years shows there were well over 200 articles about Pentecost published during that time. W.E. Sweeney’s keynote address at the 1929 North American Christian Convention was “The Challenge of Pentecost.” A dozen articles about Pentecost were published during 1930, a year in which the 1,900th anniversary of the birth
May 23, 2007
By Mark A. Taylor We’re indebted to a faithful reader who wrote us last year to ask why Christian Standard included no mention of Pentecost, the birthday of the church. We agree with him that the momentous events recorded in Acts 2 should be remembered and celebrated. The church represents God’s plan for proclaiming Jesus and keeping believers in fellowship with him. We who are the church seek to make it stronger and larger and more influential all in order to partner with God in his plan for our world. Our lives would be hopeless without the church. We should
April 7, 2026
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