Summary: This fall, hundreds of Calvin faculty, staff, and students will join alumni, church members, even their on-court rivals, in a campus-wide, worldwide Bible study.
Beginning on September 12, 2010, for the first time in school history, the entire Calvin community will be studying the same book of the Bible together. The study will focus on the book of Philippians, with a couple of supporting resources.
"We are doing it because we believe God's Word transforms lives," said Aaron Winkle, an associate chaplain at Calvin College.
More than 100 small groups have already registered for the study, with many more expected as students return to campus this week. And the study has spread far beyond Calvin's campus. Church congregations from as far away as the state of Washington and students studying off-campus in Beijing will also be working through this same study. In fact, studies will be led in at least five different languages, including English, Greek, German, Korean, and Spanish.
And the study goes one step further: bringing together on-court rivals.
Calvin is collaborating with the campus ministries office at Hope College. Both schools will be working through the same study at the same time.
"There's a lot of hope and optimism about how God might use this to bring our campuses together," said Winkle.
Groups will begin meeting weekly starting September 12, 2010. The study will run for ten weeks, wrapping up the week before Thanksgiving.
The weekly Living Our Faith Together (LOFT) Sunday night services at Calvin's chapel will allow for students to dig deeper into the Philippians study. And the Calvin Symposium on Worship next January will have all of its worship services focused around the Philippians texts.
For more info on the study, visit http://www.calvin.edu/faith/philippians or contact Aaron Winkle at 616-526-6679.
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