ViewPoint continues the rich legacy of CBH English broadcasting—a legacy spanning more than sixty years—with a new expanded on-air team. Each week it is heard on radio stations and the Internet, literally around the globe. We are in touch with listeners everyday via e-mail and phone. A twenty-four-hour line in North America answers calls from our ViewPoint audience.  A phone bank in London receives calls from our listeners in Europe and the Caribbean. Every day, the conversation, the sowing, the giving hope, and the reaping continues.

By Victor Lee

He was fed up. Over it. Had seen enough of the big leagues. The boozing. The carousing. The lives centered on self. He was, frankly, pretty disgusted. Not that all Major League Baseball players were or are that way, but he saw the gravitational pull to self-fulfillment, and it moved him the opposite direction. So he retired. Walked away. Bowie Kuhn, then baseball’s commissioner, wrote him a letter to ask him if he was sure that’s what he wanted to do. After all, he was only 21 years old.

Colorado Springs—The Church of God Colorado Conference, lead by State Minister Larry Taylor, recently hosted a ThinkNEXT church revitalization conference at the Vista Grande Church of God in Colorado Springs, Colorado. These regional conferences are being hosted by state associations as part of their ongoing partnership with Church of God Ministries and their desire to bring health and growth to Church of God congregations across the country.

What could be better than a few days of peaceful renewal in the North Carolina mountains at the peak of the fall color change? Add to that picture the company of some of the finest folks you will ever want to meet. Then mix in CBH host Jim Lyon, Sandi Patty Peslis, along with husband Don, Sandi’s parents Ron and Carolyn Patty, and CBH cohosts Kimberly Majeski and Obadiah Smith. Well, what a time it will be!

Listen to an interview with Marcos Kurrle as he describes how he came to be involved in an exciting Youth ministry in Paraguay.  Click here to play audio.

By Wes Helbling

Bastrop, La. - Dennis Irby of Bastrop has joined an annual mission team to the South American country of Peru for eight years and counting. This year’s journey, from which he and two other members of the First Church of God in Bastrop recently returned, held a special surprise.

By Diane Davenport

I had a conversation the other day with a Maori woman who attends the local university where Dan Blanton and I are doing chaplaincy work. Not long after we met, she said, “I wonder if you’d pray for me. I’m trying to stop doing drugs.” In further conversation, it became evident that the drugs were interfering with her studies, her family, and especially her relationship with God. She said, “I’m just too ashamed. I want to fix things, but I don’t think God will accept me.”

Church of God Ministries accepted the resignation of Cayla Dyer as career missionary to Brazil, effective July 16, 2008.

Cayla has turned in her ministerial credentials to Indiana Ministries.

Please pray for the Lord's leading in Cayla’s life as she makes her career transition.