The International Conference On Missions has several prayer initiatives leading up to its annual gathering Nov. 16-18 in Oklahoma City. The most timely initiative, Pray for the Nations, begins on May 1. It requires you to opt-in by contacting ICOM via text message. Then, beginning next week, you will receive one text message per week listing seven countries to pray for—one country for each day of the week. Learn more here.
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In celebration of their 25th anniversary, students and alumni of the New Creation singing group at Johnson University Florida wrote and performed original songs to create a special CD. Listen for free at Spotify or buy a CD for $12 at the johnsonu.edu website. The CD is dedicated to the memory of Nathan Gemeinhart, a New Creation and JUFL alumnus who was killed in 2022.
New Creation alumni concerts are slated for June 11 at North Florida Christian Camp in Keystone Heights and Sept. 10 Englewood Christian Church in Jacksonville. Ruth Reyes and Dirk Donahue serve as co-directors. Learn more at the Facebook post from earlier this week.
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TCM’s annual Every Nation Summit—an evening of fellowship, dinner, fun, and sharing TCM’s vision—will take place at 6:30 p.m. Friday at the IMMI Conference Center in Westfield, Ind.
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Richard Westerlund, director of athletics and head men’s basketball coach at Great Lakes Christian University (Lansing, Mich.) since 2018, resigned recently to become the head coach at the University of Northwestern Ohio in Lima. Several days later, GLCC’s head women’s soccer coach Sam Sibilski was hired as the new director of athletics, replacing Westerlund.
Westerlund enjoyed great success at GLCC, as has Sibilski. As a coach, Westerlund’s teams won 101 games in five years and advanced to the national tournament four times. In 2020, he hired Sibilski, whose soccer squad won a national championship in 2021.
GLCC posted articles about Westerlund’s departure and Sibilski’s hiring as new director of athletics.
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The Summit to Summit Run/Walk sponsored by Summit Christian College will take place at 7:30 a.m. May 6 in Gering, Neb. The 7.2-mile course starts at Summit Christian College and heads to the visitors’ center at Scotts Bluff National Monument before returning to SCC. The event is expected to attract 300 or more participants.
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Lipscomb University in Nashville recently named the school’s archives for Robert E. Hooper, who taught history there for nearly 60 years. Hooper, a leading historian of the Restoration Movement and the noninstrumental Churches of Christ, has entrusted his books and papers to the archives, located at the Beaman Library.
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