May 2011 Issue

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Our Shared Ministry

• A Garden Grows in Tegucigalpa
• Discussions Continue on Belhar Confession
• Habib’s Story
• Leaders Multiply Themselves in Bangladesh
• New Home Missions Director Listens to God's Call
• Scholarship, Strings, and Stars
• Seminary to Train Church Planters
• We Need to Talk

Mixed Media

• Bach: A Strange Beauty
• Home Grown: Handbook for Christian Parenting
• Love Wins?
• Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother
• Only One You
• There Be Dragons
• Ultimate Camp Resource

Columns

• Big Questions: FAQs
• Reply All: Letters: May 2011
• The Other 6: Mercy for an Addict
• Point of View: Punch Lines
• Still: Return to Wonder
• Discover: Stormy Weather
• Editorial: True Dialogue
• Vantage Point: U.S. Budget Cuts Could Harm Poor
• The Other 6: Why Give?

Features

• Jihad: What Does the Qur’an Really Say?
• Mash’Allah: Whatever the Will of God
• Our Fundamental Identity
• The Hardest Death of All

News

• Arizona Church Benefits from Preschool
• Churches Deliver Pre-built Houses to Baja
• Cinderella Jam
• Covenant for Officebearers Proposed
• CRC Executive Director Resigns
• Florida Church Goes All Out for Haiti
• Helping Give Unto Caesar What Is Caesar’s
• Illinois Church Packs Hope for Haiti Students
• In Memoriam: Rev. Elton Piersma
• In Memoriam: Rev. Wesley Timmer
• Interim Safe Church Director Appointed
• Little School, Big Win in British Columbia
• Massachusetts Boys Win State Basketball Title
• Michigan Church Adopts a Block in the Neighborhood
• Ministering to Neighbors with $100
• Ministers, Spouses, and Churches Get Dinged on New Pension Rules
• New Pastor Does Prison Time
• News from Winter Classis Meetings
• Ontario Man Wins Engineering Competition
• Washington Boys Bring Home Basketball Title
• West Michigan Family Grows through Embryo Adoption
• Youth Workers Find SoulCare