Calvin to Host Missions Fair

January 20, 2006 == MEDIA ADVISORY
 
Next month the Calvin College chapter of the InterVarsity Mission
Fellowship will host representatives of over 20 mission organizations at
its annual Missions Fair.

The idea behind the fair, which will take place from 9 am to 4 pm on
February 7-8 in the Hekman Library lobby, is to showcase the wide array
of mission opportunities available to students and to show the many
forms that mission work takes today.

One special feature of the Missions Fair will be the "missionary hot
seat," to be held on Tuesday, February 7 at 9 pm in the Chapel
Undercroft.

The hot seat will be a panel of five missionaries from various
organizations who will answer students' questions about missionary life.

"People have asked about what their (the missionaries) favorite part of
mission work was or embarrassing situations they've been in," says Sara
Sytsma, the InterVarsity chair. "(They've asked about) how to raise
support and what their advice would be to students who want to go
overseas. And any other questions that students can think of."

The Mission fair will include such groups as Wycliffe, Africa Inland
Mission (AIM), SEND International and the English Language
Institute-China (ELIC), plus many more. Sytsma says the fair, which
InterVarsity revived in 2004, can be a life-changing experience for a
student. "I know several students," she says, "who joined mission
organizations after going to the mission fair."

For the full story see
http://www.calvin.edu/news/releases/2005_06/missions_fair.htm

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Received on Thu Jan 19 17:11:06 2006