If any one of their more than 10,000-members is going to get sick with the new coronavirus, Olus Holder, executive pastor of Fallbrook Church in Houston, Texas, says they won’t be getting it from attending his church.

Fallbrook, which was founded by Senior Pastor Michael A. Pender Sr., was announced Thursday as one of two COVID-19 testing sites established in the city with help from New York state. The church sits on a 40-acre property and its sanctuary seats about 2,300 people. The other church established as a COVID-19 testing site with aid from New York state is southwest Houston’s Higher Dimension Church.

Through capacity restrictions, a ban on congregational singing, the use of thermal and laser screening technology, along with appropriate mask-wearing, hand sanitizing and social distancing, Holder told The Christian Post in an interview Friday that not one member has gotten the virus yet.

“If they are going to get…

An Episcopal Church diocese is helping to raise funds for two predominantly African-American mission churches in Kentucky so they can renovate their properties.

The Episcopal Diocese of Kentucky is seeking to raise $200,000 for St. George’s Episcopal Church and the Church of Our Merciful Saviour, both located in the West End of Louisville.

Bishop Terry White told Episcopal News Service that the two mission churches “have always been in the forefront of providing community services.”

“We played a role in these congregations’ buildings being in the shape that they are. … We are all one, and therefore we all have a responsibility to get these buildings in good shape,” he told ENS.

The fundraising campaign, known as “West Louisville Now,” was spurred on in part by the tragic shooting of Breonna Taylor by police officers and the subsequent large-scale protests.

In a letter sent out in June announcing the fundraiser, Bishop White highlighted the work of both mission churches…

A transgender individual whose hysterectomy surgery was canceled by a Catholic hospital due to religious objections sued the medical institution last week, alleging discrimination and violations of constitutionally protected rights.

Jesse Hammons, who was born female but identifies as male, was scheduled to undergo a hysterectomy in January. Yet one week prior to the surgery, the hospital – St. Joseph Medical Center in Towson, Md. – contacted Hammons to cancel it.

St. Joseph said it was bound by the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services, which were created by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, according to The Baltimore Sun.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed suit on behalf of Hammons, alleging the hospital violated the Constitution’s Establishment Clause because St. Joseph receives state money. The Establishment Clause prohibits the government from making a “law respecting an establishment of religion.”

The suit also claims violations of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, and the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare).

“The government has no business running a religious hospital,” said ACLU senior staff attorney Joshua Block.

St. Joseph is part of the University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS).

“The Supreme Court has been clear that a government-controlled corporation like UMMS must comply with the…

One of the world’s most renowned evangelical theologians, J.I. Packer, author of the bestselling book, Knowing God, died Friday at the age of 93.

The cause of death of James Innell Packer, widely known as J.I. Packer, is believed to be natural, according to his obituary.

Though born into a lower-middle-class family in a village outside of Gloucester, England, Packer, a lifelong Anglican churchman, wrote hundreds of Christian books and articles for nearly 70 years. He was educated at Oxford University on scholarships.

Paying tribute to the British-born Canadian Christian theologian, Justin Taylor, an executive vice president for book publishing at Crossway, wrote, “I can only add that in every single encounter that I was privileged to have with him, I came away thinking of him not as a great man, but as a man who had personally encountered a Great Savior.”

Jonathan Brook, lead pastor at Refuge Church in North Carolina, wrote on Twitter that Knowing God has been one of the most…

An ongoing movement known as Saturate OC, led by Parker and Jessi Green, is bringing about a spiritual revival at Huntington Beach in Orange County, California.

The movement began on Friday, July 3rd, and has recently extended its weekly services to August 7th. The movement has received some push back as many people are choosing not to wear face masks while gathering.

According to The Christian Post, the couple had moved to California from New York after God showed them a “profound vision” in 2016.

“We came to California on a vacation and as we prayed, we saw a picture of thousands of people being baptized along Huntington Beach Pier; the harvest was so massive, people were quickly turning around to baptize the person behind them,” Jessi explained on the Saturate OC website.

“There was a ripple effect to this move of God. I believe that there is a massive harvest for THE CHURCH in Orange County to participate in and we need to prepare the nets of discipleship,” she added.

Jessi noted that God was preparing them for a tremendous harvest of souls in the summer of 2020.

“‘There’s a 50,000-person Harvest in Huntington Beach during Summer 2020. Pray for workers.’ This is the word God has been speaking to me,” she wrote.

As the movement continues to grow, multiple churches have joined Saturate OC over the past few weeks.

“People were coming to the front…

More than 500 churches are using a telephone-based streaming service to allow members to listen to live worship services if they don’t have internet access to watch online.  

Known as PhoneLiveStreaming.com, the service was launched in March after churches were ordered to close during state lockdowns in response to the coronavirus. As many as 550 churches are now using the service.

The audio service allows people to listen to a livestream of a church worship service on a traditional telephone line instead of watching it online.

Hugh Plappert, whose son David developed the system while on spring bring in March, told The Christian Post that people can “just pick up the phone and they’re in church.”

“It actually does streaming across the internet to a server that then converts the signal and then puts it on a phone line,” said Plappert.

“So people with traditional phone lines are receiving streaming. People with poor or no internet access are the main audience.”

Plappert also told CP that churches that’ve used the audio service have…