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• Tragedy results in hope for New Life
  

  God uses the tragedy of 9-11 to help a small church in New Mexico to receive some much-needed assistance. Since that time, however, workers and finances have continued to arrive at New Life Christian Assembly in Pine Dale in a regular stream of support for the church and the community.

• Ministry rescues women lured into prostitution
  

  AG U.S. missionaries Michael and Denise Bartel have started F.R.E.E. International in Long Branch, New Jersey, to minister to teenage girls who have been lured into the U.S. by international prostitution and forced into sexual slavery.

• Sharing a message of God's power, South Carolina church grows
  

  Using the "Nothing's Too Hard for God" media campaign, Faith Assembly in Summerville, South Carolina, decided to share a message of hope with its community on a larger scale than it had ever done before.

• General Presbytery approves new and revised position papers
  

  Among the decisions made at this week's General Presbytery meeting was the approval of both a Worship in the Bible position paper and a revised Divorce and Remarriage position paper.

• AG sees jump in full-time children's pastors
  

  Since 1998, the number of paid full-time children's pastors has nearly doubled in the Assemblies of God. Children's Ministries Agency National Director Jason Noble believes churches have come to realize just how important it is to continue to reach the next generation.