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• CRWRC Invites Feedback on New Name - As CRWRC considers a name change, it invites feedback on the proposed new name, logo, colors and tagline.
• Conference Assessing 'Mistakes' - Hundreds of students, teachers, authors, mission workers and others have gathered this week on the campus of Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Mich., to discuss, among other things, approaches that work and those that don't in the field of international development.
• Japanese Church Delegates Issue Cry - Delegates from churches in Korea and Japan this week called for the World Communion of Reformed Churches (WCRC) and other ecumenical organizations to become more actively involved in bringing "critical attention" to issues related to nuclear energy.
• Kabetu Brings Post-Colonial Perspective - Steve Kabetu, the newly-named director for Christian Reformed World Missions (CRWM) in Canada, was born in Kenya on a land reserve where members of his family had been transplanted in the 1950s by British colonial authorities.
• CRC to Restructure Leadership Exchange - The Christian Reformed Church in North America will reassess and reconfigure The Leadership Exchange, the denomination?s current approach to leadership development, Rev. Joel Boot, executive director of the CRCNA, announced this week.
• Closing Service Celebrates Psalms - The 25th annual Calvin Symposium on Worship ended Saturday afternoon with an expressive, psalms-filled service in the Covenant Fine Arts Center on the campus of Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Mich.
• CRWRC History of Aid to Cuban Refugees - In 1959, Fidel Castro led a revolution to overthrow the government of Cuba. In the succeeding years as Castro adopted a philosophy of communism, hundreds of thousands of Cubans left Cuba and came to the United States to begin a new life. As they arrived in Miami, Florida, many were greeted by and received assistance from members of the Christian Reformed Church through a ministry known as the Good Samaritan Center.
• Mission of Hope For Trinity Students - Students from Trinity College were working with the people of Leveque, Haiti, as a way to mark the two-year anniversary of the massive earthquake that devastated parts of the impoverished country, when the actual anniversary occurred.
• Psalm 8 Says 'Pay Attention' - The opening day of the annual Calvin Symposium on Worship finished Thursday evening with a worship service as well as a sermon by Mark Labberton, a seminary professor who spoke on Psalm 8 and its lessons of God?s attentiveness and all-encompassing majesty.
• 'Digital Magazine' is Launched - Back to God Ministry International's Think Christian?an online collaborative community that discusses faith, culture, and what it means to be a Christian in today?s society?has launched a newly revised website. The site is essentially a collaborative digital magazine that makes it easier for people to join in conversations on topics such as music, movies, politics, world events, the church and more.