Billy Graham remains passionate for the Kingdom, Frank Page observed during a May 12 visit with the 93-year-old evangelist.

Predictably, the news cycles these days have been largely consumed with the unpredictable – the outcome of the 2012 presidential election and the future of the institution of marriage. This follows days of media showcasing the sensational – Secret Service prostitution scandals in Colombia and General Services Administration spending scandals in Las Vegas.

As youths, Qahir Hamad* and his Bangladeshi friends beat a group selling Bibles and Christian literature and threw the wares into a pond. Consumed with guilt over what he’d done, Hamad hardly slept that night. Having secretly saved four books to read later, he found someone after weeks of searching to tell him what the books meant.

Dean Sisk is bringing four men to Georgia in July from Belle Aire Baptist Church hoping they gain new vision and new connections for expanding their reach. “We came to a conclusion that our primary focus in missions needed to be on planting churches,” said Sisk, who has led the Tennessee congregation in assisting a half-dozen church starts across North America.