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Juno-award-winning Winnipeg Christian artist Steve Bell is releasing a new single ahead of his 23rd studio album, The Glad Surprise.

"Right around the time Russia invaded Ukraine, Bruce Cockburn's song, 'Lovers in a Dangerous Time,' started rolling around in my brain," says Bell. "He wrote it during the Cold War when he had a lot of fears for his daughter and her friends, what their future might be. Now, with many, many wars going on, love ends up being a miracle."

Three years ago Jordan St. Cyr moved him and his family down to Tennessee. This week he'll perform in his hometown of Niverville for the first time since the move to a sold-out crowd.

"We wanted to do something special, in Niverville, just to really honour all the relationships that have helped us get to where we are here," says St. Cyr. "I'm blown away by the response. It's going to be a beautiful night of worship and celebrating what God has done in our lives and what His desire is to do in each one of our lives."

Christian author Grace Fox recently released her newest book that talks about the power in the different names of God. 

"It's got seven names of God, the Hebrew names, and doing a deep dive into, where did they first show up in the Old Testament and what was the context," says Fox. "I described a story from my own life, how I've experienced God by that name, and then how did Jesus fulfill that name to show that He was truly God."

The book, Names of God: Living Unfraid, is best read as a group, according to Fox. 

Brad Schollengberg was a pastor of Peace Lutheran Church for 30 years before a diagnosis of Pulmonary Fibrosis made him stop working. 

"It's a chronic lung disease that causes irreparable, permanent scarring of the healthy lung tissue," says Heidi Schollengberg, Brad's wife. "There are other diseases that can lead to Pulmonary Fibrosis, such as Rheumatoid Arthritis, Lupus, Myocitis, and now there's talk of even long COVID being a risk."

Manitoba Christian singer Jordan Janzen is releasing a new single called 'Kindness' in the midst of touring with The Newsboys. 

Janzen is the lead singer of the band The Color, while also releasing music as a solo artist. His first single was called 'You Can Let Go.' 

An Egyptian pastor who made his home in Winnipeg believes God is up to something wonderful in the heart of Canada. 

Moheb Nasr, originally from Egypt, was formerly a megachurch pastor in his home country. During the pandemic, Nasr and his wife felt a calling from God to come to Winnipeg. 

For the past four years, Nasr has been a pastor with Lighthouse Evangelical Arabic Church in Winnipeg. 

Seventeen-year-old Phoenix has been fighting for her life since 2021 when she was diagnosed with stage four bone cancer, and she recently received some tough news again. 

On July 2, the teen who had her entire right leg up to the hip amputated shortly after being diagnosed, found out that the cancer has now spread to her sacrum, spine, and lungs. A recent MRI and CT scan showed the spots. 

A Winnipeg grandpa to 11 grandkids is jumping on his bicycle one last time to help thousands of orphans in Kenya. 

Arvid Loewen has been ultra-marathon cycling for the past 20 years to help raise funds for Mully Children's Family (MCF), which gives orphans access to school and food in Kenya. To date, Loewen has helped raise over $12 million for the ministry. 

The valedictorian for the graduating class at Linden Christian School this year is Kieran Johnson. 

"It's definitely an honour," says Johnson. "Our students got to vote on who they'd like to represent them. Everybody who was nominated got to send in a speech, which was reviewed anonymously by a few teachers and mine was chosen."

Johnson says when he was in kindergarten he wanted to go into professional sports, whether that would have been the NHL, NBA, or professional soccer. Now he's considering pursuing a career in ministry or missions.