Family Christian Stores’ partnership with World Vision has now helped its customers sponsor more than 150,000 children.

Pastor David Yonggi Cho, founder of the world’s largest Pentecostal church, received a suspended sentence of three years in prison for embezzling $12 million of church funds.

Cho is the author of several books, including The Fourth Dimension and Unleashing the Power of Faith (both Bridge-Logos Publishers).

Most brands don’t have a strategy in place to manage customer complaints in social media, despite being plagued by negative posts by customers, competitors and employees, according to a survey conducted by Social Media Marketing University (SMMU).

Of the brands surveyed, 58.2% receive customer complaints via social media “occasionally,” 10.9% receive them “somewhat often” while 4.9% receive them “very often.” More than a quarter (26.1%) of brands’ reputations have been tarnished as a result of negative social media posts, with 15.2% losing customers and 11.4% suffering declining revenue.

Seungtae Kim, president of the Korea Christian Publishers Association (KCPA) and Christian Trade Korea and publisher of Jeyoung Communications, died Friday morning, Feb. 21. He was 56, and leaves behind his wife, son and daughter.

Kim also organized the Korea Christian Rights Fair. He was also a board member for Christian Trade Association International (CTAI) from July 2010 to June 2013.

Rock band Skillet led all artists during the second annual We Love Christian Music awards, which were presented piecemeal at The Roadshow concerts throughout January and February. The band garnered five honors, including Song of the Year, Album of the Year and the 2013 Fan Impact Award.

Skillet earned honors for Song of the Year (“Sick of It”), Album of the Year (Rise) and The Rawkfist award (Best Rock/Alternative Artist/Group). Skillet also won the Fan Impact Award: a write-in category that asks fans to identify the artist or group who most impacted them in 2013.

Today is the deadline for the 2014 Christian Retailing’s Best awards nominations. The awards sponsored by Christian Retailing celebrate the best 2013 and backlist gifts, books, DVDs, music and other releases in the Christian products industry.

Companies and authors planning to enter have until midnight, Feb. 24, to nominate their products. New companies that released their first products in 2013 also may enter under the New Supplier category. Those who have had successful product campaigns can enter under the Marketing/Promotion Campaign category. Enter online at ChristianRetailingsBest.com in any one of more than 60 categories.

The United Bible Societies has appointed Nelson Saba to the newly created role of digital publishing strategist, demonstrating its commitment to harnessing digital technology to make the Bible more widely available and accessible.

Saba, a Brazilian, is a pioneer of digital Bible publishing, having begun work in the field in 1996. He created the best-selling Bible software iLumina, which launched in 2002, and 2009’s multimedia Glo Bible, which has moved more than 3 million downloads to date.