Youth Unlimited, a long-time, non-denominational youth ministry, is calling on North American teens to spend a few days this summer helping to restore and revitalize the poverty-stricken city of Marion, Ind.

The daughter of devout Calvinist parents, Elsie Vander Weit was born with cerebral palsy more than years 60 years ago in the Netherlands.

James Schaap, author of many award-winning books of fiction and non-fiction that frequently feature people and places in the Christian Reformed Church, is retiring at the end of this academic year as a professor of English at Dordt College in Sioux Center, Iowa.

Faith-based development specialist Christopher Heuertz called on participants at the seventh annual Calvin Conference on International Development to use contemplative prayer and other faith practices to cultivate a "prophetic" sense of how Jesus wants them to be involved in a hurting world.

As CRWRC considers a name change, it invites feedback on the proposed new name, logo, colors and tagline.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Many Egyptians will fill Tahrir Square in downtown Cairo, Egypt, this week to mark the one-year anniversary of the Egyptian Revolution that broke out on Jan. 25, 2011, and eventually drove long-time Egyptian dictator, Hosni Mubarak, from office, said Anne Zaki, Middle East coordinator for the Christian Reformed Church?s Office of Social Justice (OSJ).

People can now register to participate in the inaugural Christian Reformed Church (CRC) Prayer Summit, which is set for April 16-18 at All Nations Church in Lake View Terrace, Calif.

Christian Reformed Church pastors, youth leaders, high school administrators, and Bible teachers have the opportunity to play a role in helping to shape the future of the denomination by encouraging and then nominating young people to participate in Calvin Theological Seminary?s Facing Your Future (FYF) program.

When Mohammad Al Bouazizi lit himself on fire in central Tunisia in December 2010, the young street vendor also sparked a fire of political upheaval that continues to burn across North Africa and the Middle East, said writer and religion scholar Reza Aslan.

Opening on Jan. 26, Calvin College?s production of "David: A Play with Psalms" aims to dramatically portray through words and music the extraordinary and complex life of King David, the revered Old Testament political leader, miltiary hero and poet.

Micah Challenge USA, a faith-based organization committed to cutting worldwide poverty in half by 2015, is once again in operation after being dissolved for a lack of funding early in 2011, says Peter Vander Meulen, director of the Christian Reformed Church?s Office of Social Justice (OSJ).