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• Calvin Worship Experts Accept Award - John Witvliet and Charsie Sawyer stood onstage in early June before a throng of African-American and white church leaders to accept an award for excellence in church music.
• Rider for AJS Reaches His Goal - Steve McCloskey celebrated the end of a 2,500-mile, fund-raising bicycle ride on Tuesday evening with friends and well-wishers at a city park just down the street from the Grand Rapids, Mich., headquarters of the Christian Reformed Church.
• Psalm-Singing on the Rise - Singing the psalms, a tradition that had fallen out of favor in some churches in lieu of using "contemporary" praise music, is starting to make a resurgence, according to worship leaders quoted in a series of articles in the most recent issue of Reformed Worship.
• Learning Challenges of Campus Ministry - Sam and Darcie Gutierrez recently completed internships at the University of Calgary, a university that has an enrollment of about 30,000 students who come to college with lots of questions, experience with a range of faiths, and the desire, often unspoken, to know God better.
• Reaching Beyond the Radio Waves - The earthquake that hit Haiti more than six months ago on Jan. 12 destroyed hundreds of radio stations, towers, and much of the broadcast equipment. For many days, the airwaves were nearly silent.
• Dordt Student Dies In Climbing Accident - A Dordt College student and stand-out on the basketball team died in a climbing accident at the Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming on Wednesday, July 21. He was 21 years old.
• Haiti Schools, Businesses Get Help - Sixty thousand Haitian children counted on school each day to give them hope for a better future in Haiti.
• From Broken Legs to Faith in Christ - Dima, a young apprentice carpenter for a small firm in northwest Russia, slipped off a ladder and was seriously injured, breaking both legs, while assembling a countryside cottage.
• Haitian Workers: 'Let's Get Up' - As worldwide news organizations do six-month anniversary stories about the lack of hope and progress in Haiti, Mario Matos found things to be the opposite during a recent trip to the earthquake-ravaged island.
• Letter Details Work of Synod 2010 - For the first time in 2011, young adult advisers will be appointed to serve at the Christian Reformed Church synod, writes Rev. Jerry Dykstra, executive director of the Christian Reformed Church in North America, in a letter to CRC Church Councils.