More than 200,000 people attended GRAMMY-winner Chris Tomlin's Love Ran Red Tour this spring, making history as the biggest tour of his career to date.

Hitting 36 cities and selling out venues in Chicago, Seattle, Phoenix, Dallas and more, the tour saw an overwhelming response. But fans did more than just show up—they gave over $700K to CURE International, an organization with which Tomlin partnered for the Love Ran Red Tour. The donations will help fund 700 life-changing surgeries for children with disabilities.

LifeWay Christian Resources has entered talks to purchase a 1.6-acre site in the southern part of downtown Nashville, according to the Nashville Business Journal.

Earlier this year, the company agreed to sell its current campus to Uptown Nashville LLC for approximately $125 million. The estimated value of the new property, currently undeveloped, is just under $5 million.

B&H Español and LifeWay Español won a combined six awards at the Spanish Evangelical Publishers Association (SEPA) Awards held April 30-May 3 in Miami during Expolit 2015, the largest annual conference and expo designed to promote the growth of ministry and resources within Spanish-speaking markets. These awards follow B&H Español being named Publisher of the Year the past two years.

"It has been an exciting year to see what we at B&H and LifeWay can do to impact the gospel through our Spanish resources,” said Craig Featherstone, vice president of LifeWay Global. “We are looking ahead [to] continue providing Spanish speakers Bible and Christian resources that will transform lives and equip and strengthen the church.”

B&H Kids, the children’s imprint of B&H Publishing Group, has announced the first two books in a multi-book deal with best-selling and award-winning author Vicki Courtney. Courtney is a speaker on parenting and women’s issues and has written multiple books targeting teens and their parents, including the best-selling Five Conversations You Must Have With Your Son and Five Conversations You Must Have With Your Daughter (B&H).

The first two books from B&H Kids are titled Can You Relate? How to Handle Parents, Friends, Boys, and More and Cherish: Cultivating Relationships with Parents, Friends, Guys, and More and will release in February 2016.

The Christian Retailing Update newsletter will not sent Monday, May 25, as Christian Retailing offices will be closed for the Memorial Day holiday. 

Our staff wishes you a blessed holiday weekend. Christian Retailing Update will resume its normal schedule Thursday, May 28.

LifeWay Christian Stores will be holding a War Room Day of Prayer event in its stores Friday, May 22.

War Room, the upcoming movie from brothers Alex and Stephen Kendrick of Courageous and Fireproof fame, is centered on the power and importance of prayer in waging spiritual warfare. The film is slated to open in theaters Aug. 28.

Send The Light Distribution (STL) rolled out a brand new design for its B2B site, stl-distribution.com, to better serve its customers. In 2014, STL received more than 6 million page views on its site but hopes with the new look and revision to many of its search features, traffic will grow even more.

“We’re very excited to bring these new and updated features to our website," said Mark Phillips, vice president of sales and marketing at STL. "We have listened to our customers' suggestions and input over the years and are pleased to have incorporated many of them to create a more user-friendly experience."

The biggest change STL has made to the site is the search function. Customers will notice that the search bar is no longer on the left side but has been moved to the top center of every page. The search engine also has been ungraded to better enhance searching on the site and also incorporates the Bible search. The result is a more seamless experience for customers, enabling them to quickly find what they need. Another feature many customers asked for is the ability for them to add products to the cart without having to leave the page they are on.