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The GetReligion reader, and media pro, noted: NOWHERE in the story does it say what kind of congregation it is: Episcopal, Unitarian, Assemblies of God, whatever. It's certainly a question that sprang into the mind of the religion-beat veteran who sent me an email the other day about this story.Īpparently, editors at The York Daily Record didn't think this question was all that relevant. Now, combine these symbolic facts and most religion-news consumers are going to ask a rather basic question. In this story, you find out that the clergyperson in question - introduced as Shawn Berkebile, with no 'The Rev.' - likes to wear a clerical collar and that he has a bishop, with whom he consults on crucial questions about his parish and his work. Unless noted otherwise, all photographs are by Karen Huttenga.Let's say that you are a regular reader of religion news and you see a story with this simple, but bold headline: ' Meet Pennsylvania's unlikely 'Pastor for Pot'.' For CRC Communications releases and the webcast, please visit. News stories will be posted at several times daily. You can find more tweeting by following hashtag #crcsynod.

BRAVE CHURCH DENOMINATION DOWNLOAD

For continuous coverage while synod is in session, download the Banner app on your mobile device or follow The Banner Magazine on Facebook or on Twitter. Synod 2017 is meeting at Trinity Christian College in Palos Heights, Ill., from June 9-15. They said, “If we die, we die in the Lord.” At a trauma healing conference sponsored by Christian Reformed World Missions in Nairobi, Kenya, the leaders decided to go back. The leaders of this brave church have decided to stay. Three church buildings have been burnt down. In the ongoing civil war, the church has lost 27 members, two pastors, and five evangelists. This new church has grown largely without much in the way of outside support. It has 12 ordained pastors and 20 evangelists. The church has now grown to 6,000 members. In 2009, the Sudanese Reformed Church held its first synod. By 2005, with 500 members, it was organized as a denomination subscribing to the Reformed confessions. Five years later, in 1997, it had grown to four congregations. The church began in 1992 with a single house church. The Sudanese Reformed Church has emerged and grown in the midst of this violence. Much of the population faces daily hunger. Millions more have been displaced, many becoming refugees in neighboring nations. To date, Patrick Jok said, 100,000 people have been killed. By 2103, South Sudan was plunged into civil war along tribal lines. For a long time the conflict had been between north and south, but in 2011, South Sudan became an independent nation.

In recent years there appeared to be new reason for hope for an end of the conflict.

Patrick Jok briskly walked the audience through a century of Sudanese history. In a calm and factual manner, using packed PowerPoint slides, Patrick Jok of the Sudanese Reformed Church presented both the hope and the horror of South Sudan to synodical delegates and guests gathered at Trinity Christian College while synod (the general assembly of the Christian Reformed Church) was on a dinner break.

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