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• Australian Christian radio station launches broadcasts to Pacific | The weekend broadcast ended a five-year battle for the group, called Heralding Christ Jesus's Blessings, which is based near the town of Kununurra in Western Australia (Financial Times)
  
  
• Christian tattoo artist claims world record | Texas man who uses tattoos to spread the Gospel believes he set a new world record during the weekend by adorning the skin of one of his friends—non-stop for more than 30 hours (Reuters)
  
  
• Orthodox churches reviving missionary tradition around the world | While vastly outnumbered by Protestants and Catholics on the mission field, Orthodox missionaries from the United States serve from Guatemala to India (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
  
  
• Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod recalls 28 overseas missionaries | One-fourth of the overseas missionaries of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod are being recalled to the United States at month's end because of a shortfall in donations (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)

Missionary dangers:

• Faith in their work | Risks not deterring US Christians who labor overseas (The Boston Globe)
  
  
• Missionaries under fire | Danger, restrictions force many into undercover mode (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
  
  
• Kin mourn missionary alain in Yemen | Kathleen Gariety remembered in Wisconsin hometown (Associated Press)

Billy Graham schedules two more crusades:

• Graham returning to Oklahoma City | The crusade is tentatively scheduled June 12 through 15 (Edmond Sun)
  
  
• Billy Graham to hold revival in San Diego in May | Mission San Diego with Billy Graham is set for May 8-11 (San Diego Union-Tribune)
  
  
• Going with God | As the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association prepares to move to new headquarters in Charlotte, N.C., loyal Minneapolis workers looked for divine guidance in their decision whether to move along too (Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn.)

'Elvis Priestly' church opens:

• Elvis-impersonating preacher rocks Canada | In the Christ the King Graceland Independent Anglican Church of Canada, "Rockin' Reverend" Dorian Baxter presides with the sideburns and singing of Elvis Presley to attract the wayward to Jesus Christ (Associated Press)
  
  
• 'Elvis Priestly' forms church of Grace-Land | First service tomorrow: Anglican priest who imitates his idol falls out with Ontario diocese (The National Post)
  
  
• Rockin' reverend shakes up service | Elvis church's first service a hit 250 flock to hall in Newmarket (The Toronto Star)

Church life:

• Churches turn up volume with big sound systems | Smaller and more conservative churches following trend set by charismatics and megachurches (The Washington Post)
  
  
• In rare rite, women pledge to live their lives as virgins | For the second time in a month, a Chicago-area woman has participated in an ancient and rarely used ceremony to consecrate a virgin in the Roman Catholic Church (Chicago Tribune)
  
  
• Ethiopian churches meet spiritual, practical needs | The needs and the assistance are more plentiful these days (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
  
  
• Yoga gains a Christian following | Richard Faulds prefers "yoga for Christians" to "Christian yoga" because it suggests an "invitation for people to share Christian fellowship and explore the practice of yoga" rather than "making it Christian." (Karen Garloch, The Charlotte Observer)

Southwest Community Church:

• Donor questions ministry's use of funds | David Moore: $1.2 million gift was properly handled (The Desert Sun, California)
  
  

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January (Web-only) 2003, Vol. 47