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Donations to Christian Reformed World Relief Committee’s Haiti earthquake fund topped $10 million this week, making this one of the largest relief efforts undertaken by the agency. CRWRC is the relief and develop arm of the Christian Reformed Church in North America. Its International Disaster Relief team has been active in bringing aid to Haitians in the wake of the Jan. 12 earthquake, working with CRC agencies and other partners ... 
The Christian Reformed Church in North America's Committee for Contact with the Government will be opening a permanent office in Ottawa, Ontario, location of the country's capitol and seat of the Canadian Parliament, in early July ... 
Rev. Setri Nyomi is especially pleased that worship services for the Uniting General Council will include prayers, hymns, songs, litanies, and other multicultural aspects aimed at including as many of the international delegates as possible in the 10-day meeting. Taking place June 18-28, the UGC ... 
Both Reformed Worship, a quarterly magazine published by Faith Alive Christian Resources, the publishing arm of the Christian Reformed Church in North America, and The Banner, a monthly publication from Faith Alive, won top awards during a recent meeting of the Associated Church Press in Arlington, Virginia ... 
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Ontario entrepreneur Mark Wallace has been hired as the new Educational Ministries Goal Specialist for Christian Reformed Home Missions. Wallace, a native of London, Ontario, will work ... 
The common Nicaraguan saying—"A poor person goes to jail for stealing a chicken, but a rich person always gets off" – reflects the injustice that the Christian Reformed World Relief Committee’s Mark VanderWees sees all around him in the country. "Nicaragua has an elaborate legal code, but ... Heads Up Supplemental Reports to synod, including those by the Board of Trustees of the CRCNA, Calvin Theological Seminary, Candidacy Committee, and a few others have been posted on the Synod 2010 site at: www.crcna.org/synod. The Calvin College Supplement will be made available in the next couple of weeks. Synod 2010 runs June 12-19 at Trinity Christian College in Palos Heights, Ill. Two faculty members in the University of Notre Dame’s Center for Philosophy of Religion – one of whom is a member of the Christian Reformed Church — have received a total of more than $1.7 million in grant funding from the John Templeton Foundation to continue research into the problem of evil. For ages, philosophers and theologians have sought to reconcile a belief in the existence of a benevolent God with the reality of a world plagued by evil. Adding to this body of thought are Notre Dame philosophers Michael Rea, the CRC member, and Samuel Newlands. Rea and the Newlands were recently awarded a grant of more than $339,000 from the Templeton Foundation. The grant supplements an earlier $1.4 million grant awarded the two scholars. For more information on the project, go to http://evilandtheodicy.com. |
