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Faith-based organizations across the country are working together to gain an audience with U.S. presidential candidates on issues of global hunger and poverty.

The Christian Reformed Church (CRC) is planning to hit the road again next summer, pedaling bicycles and a message of hope across much of the United States.

“Many leaders in Blang Mee are still asking how they can get past the grief of seeing their whole community literally washed away,” said Andrew Ryskamp, director of CRWRC-US.

A Calvin College engineering professor and six students presented a seminar on wind energy to a very special guest on February 20 at the college's Bunker Interpretive Center.

The Back to God Hour’s ability to reach people with the gospel through media has increased—and it shows in the number of people who are connecting with the Chicago-based electronic media ministry.

All missionaries serving with Christian Reformed World Missions in Guinea were able to safely leave the strife-torn country Saturday.

The Festival of Faith & Music at Calvin College is introducing a new twist for 2007: bandspotting.

Without treating justice, there is no treatment of HIV/AIDS. That’s the bottom line after 56 staff and partners from around the world met together for the CRWRC Africa Convergence on HIV/AIDS, Feb. 12-14 in Limuru, Kenya.

Fifty community development workers from across Africa and around the world are meeting in Limuru, Kenya this week for a three-day summit on AIDS.

In a letter to the Canadian prime minister, the Christian Reformed Church is asking that Canada make reconciliation and development a top priority in Afghanistan.

The Christian Reformed World Relief Committee (CRWRC) and other local emergency organizations are planning a response to the destruction caused by a tornado that ripped through Central Florida early Friday morning.

Western capitalism has made big inroads in China in the last two decades. But the philosophical foundations of western society have been less explored. A new grant to Calvin College from the John Templeton Foundation hopes to change that.

Contemporary worship, geographic location, a website and the absence of conflict are key factors in why some congregations in America are growing, according to the latest national survey of U.S. faith communities.

Too expensive to be renovated and too historically significant to be torn down, Pamela Bolar's West Fourth Street house in Hattiesburg, Miss., was deemed a total loss after Hurricane Katrina had done its worst.

In a world of mega-churches, the small church can get lost, especially when it comes to education.

An innovative new center at Calvin College will bring fresh resources to beleaguered Christian school administrators.

More donations were given through the Christian Reformed Church’s Christmas Gift Guide this year than ever before.

"The Lord is with me; I am blessed! And I am blessed to be a blessing." These were the comments of CRWRC intern, Sharon Bemis, after she had the opportunity to distribute over 5,000 Christmas boxes to children in Romania in December.

Thirty years ago, Hirotsugu Mochida was struggling. Just 13 years old then, he and his family were experiencing great trouble and needed hope. Hirotsugu found it through The Back to God Hour radio program.

Emmylou Harris has joined a stellar line-up of singers and speakers at Calvin College's biennial Festival of Faith & Music.

Imagine interviewing hundreds of people, maybe even thousands, about their needs after a disaster and then entering all of that into a database. That's something Ken and Mary Geurink do on a regular basis on behalf of CRWRC--and they couldn't be happier. In fact, their dedicated work is helping survivors of Hurricane Katrina see hope for rebuilding their lives.

CRC Communications is ringing in 2007 with a new denominational website for the Christian Reformed Church.

A Calvin College communication professor has a new book coming out next month on the history of voting rights in the U.S., the civil rights demonstrations in Selma, Alabama, and the efforts of President Lyndon B. Johnson to create a more just society.

An Open Heart, clear of prejudice and judgment.
“Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?” (Matthew 7:3 NIV).

A Simple Life, free from clutter of consumerism and the squandering of natural resources.