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• International Seminary Set For Midwest - About 70 students from North America and elsewhere around the world will be taking seminary classes this summer as part of the "Global Institute of Theology," a program that is being held in conjunction with the meeting of the Uniting General Council in Grand Rapids, MI, in June.
• Unrest Continues in Nigeria - Nomadic herdsmen from the Fulani tribe reportedly attacked several villages in the area around Jos, Nigeria, last weekend, killing several hundred members of a local Christian tribe, Christian Reformed World Missions staff says.
• Faith and Writing Event Comes to Calvin - Calvin College will host more than 70 authors and about 2,000 readers, writers and other literary enthusiasts at the 2010 Festival of Faith and Writing, running Thursday through Saturday, April 15-17.
• Hope Equals Organizes for Change - Several college students who are campus leaders of Hope Equals, a new peace program sponsored by Christian Reformed World Missions, gathered last weekend for a training session geared toward helping them turn their interest in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict into action.
• Concerts Help CRWRC in Haiti - Calvin College students have teamed up with the school's Social Justice Committee to plan a two-day Haiti benefit concert for this weekend to benefit the work of the Christian Reformed World Relief Committee.
• WARC Women Will Visit Ministry Sites - In June, an anticipated 250 women from as many as 100 countries will meet in Grand Rapids, Mich., to take part in an event which will precede the Uniting General Council (UGC), the gathering at which the World Alliance of Reformed Churches will merge with the Reformed Ecumenical Synod into what will be called the World Communion of Reformed Churches.
• 'Welcome to the CRC' - A group of eight pastors and two spouses recently gathered in Grand Rapids, Mich., to learn more about the Christian Reformed Church as part of a pilot program of the church?s Candidacy Committee, which coordinates the ordination processes of the denomination.
• Donor Gives Gift for Ministry Shares - An anonymous donor has given $14,000 to Hillcrest Christian Reformed Church in Hudsonville, MI, to be used by the church to include as part of Hillcrest?s annual ministry shares commitment to the Christian Reformed Church in North America.
• CRHM and CRWM Join In Campaign - Christian Reformed Home Missions and Christian Reformed World Missions are collaborating on a special campaign for churches that runs from Easter Sunday, April 4, until Pentecost Sunday, May 23. The two agencies have come together to shine a spotlight on how God is changing lives with the power of the Gospel in your community and around the world.
• Kenyan Village Celebrates Harvest - "We were without food, We were without hope, You saw our need, And God has provided."