Responding to the needs of the region's homeless, First Baptist Church in Orlando raised $5.6 million in donations and pledges with an impromptu offering March 12-13.

“We’ve had a stirring in our heart and spirit that God placed the church here for this time because of foreclosures, because of this new homelessness,” Senior Pastor David Uth ... read full story

Good Shepherd Church in Charlotte, NC, decided to ramp up the intensity of its Christmas services this year. So the church sacrificed one of their Sunday offerings and gave the money away to fight human trafficking.

Through December, the Rev. Talbot Davis' sermons were interspersed with videos from the International Justice Mission - which rescues victims of the slave trade and prosecutes the perpetrators - ... read full story