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Oahu, Hawaii, an island abundant with rainbows, tropical breezes, and sunny beaches, also is home to nine Alliance churches. The small congregation of Hawaii Kai Community Church is living out Alliance Core Values and C&MA DNA as it crosses the threshold of every door that God opens to ministry.

In a report to the Board of Directors made in May 2009, it was determined by the President’s Cabinet that if there were excess revenues in fiscal 2009-2010, allocations of additional funds would made to various Alliance ministries and offices.

U.S. Alliance leaders announced today that, for the first time in 12 years, C&MA budget was met at the end of the fiscal year. That such a blessing occured in the midst of the nation’s great economic upheaval gives cause for the Alliance family to celebrate.

The following is an excerpt from Betsy Blanchard’s recent newsletter. Betsy serves with The Alliance in Spain, where she and a small team are establishing Cinderella’s House, a ministry for women exploited by sex trafficking and prostitution.
A pioneer ministry takes time. Preparing for a season of rich harvest can be slow going- sometimes confusing and [...]

by Rev. Karl Emerson, pastor of Nashwauk Alliance Church, Nashwauk, Minnesota
Last fall I was invited to travel to the Middle East to explore partnerships that might develop between our church and the Arab Lands team. As I boarded the plane, I found myself wondering what God had in store. While other pastors on the trip [...]

An Aberdeen church has joined the fight against female foeticide by backing an Indian news anchor turned human rights campaigner

Downing Street announced this morning that one of the three archdeacons in Portsmouths Church of England diocese will become a bishop

TEAM Isaan’s Development Center was burglarized earlier this month, according to C&MA workers Jon and Joy Chase. The couple, who serve with TEAM Isaan—an Alliance church-planting initiative in northeast Thailand—had just taken up residence in the center, where they serve as on-site managers.

The two largest reformed church bodies officially merged on Friday to become the World Communion of Reformed Churches representing more than 80 million Christians

Several members of Wadena Alliance Church were injured and lost homes when a tornado swept through the town of Wadena, Minnesota, June 17.
None of the injuries were life-threatening, but 10 homes belonging to church members were either severely damaged or completely destroyed. “We are in shock mode,” says Pastor Vaughn White. Neither the church nor [...]