- To order Peter Slofstra’s book, available for $24.95, see www.essencebookstore.com, and type slofstra into the search box.
- To order Robert VanderVennen’s book, available for $20, see www.icscanada.edu/bookshop.
Two Christian Reformed writers were recently recognized at the Word Guild Canadian Christian Writing Awards 2009.
Robert VanderVennen, a member of Grace CRC in Scarborough, Ontario, won an Award of Merit (second place) in the Leadership/Theoretical category for his book A University for the People: A History of the Institute for Christian Studies.
Rev. Peter Slofstra, pastor of Hope Fellowship CRC in Courtice, Ontario, received an Award of Merit for In Tandem: A Sea to Sea Cycling Odyssey, in the Independently Published Nonfiction category.
Slofstra’s book is an adventure narrative about the CRC’s 2005 Canadian Sea to Sea bike tour.
—Sophie Vandenberg
