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The 2003–05 Mennonite Your Way Directory is available by contacting Jay Basler by e-mail or by phone at 847-949-6179. Mennonite Your Way includes nearly 1500 host families worldwide in over 40 countries. These host families are ready to receive visitors in their homes for a nominal fee.

—myw news release

Serving in Mission Canada (SIM) is offering Christians ages 15–30 a free quarterly magazine about mission. Y-go will profile unreached people groups and deliver stories from teens and 20-somethings who have served God and others abroad. To subscribe, fax order to 416-497-2444.

—SIM news release

The Chair in Mennonite Studies, University of Winnipeg is preparing to host a conference Sept. 30–Oct 1, 2005, focussing on the interaction between North American Mennonites and refugees. This conference will be held on the 25th anniversary of the coming of the so-called Vietnamese “Boat People” in 1979–80. They are calling for research paper proposals for the conference. To participate, contact Royden Loewen, University of Winnipeg.

—news release

Sales for To Such as These . . . Songs and Lullabies for Children around the World, the CD produced by Foothills Mennonite Church, Calgary, have exceeded expectations. The CD was produced to raise funds for Generations at Risk, an MCC program aimed at preventing the spread of HIV/AIDS in Africa by supplying blood testing kits and health kits to people. The CD can be purchased at MCC offices and at Ten Thousand Villages stores. A second CD is being planned for release this September.

—news release

Christianity Today has announced its book awards for 2003. CT received 300 nominated titles from 46 publishers. The awards were chosen by leaders in a variety of disciplines.

• Apologetics/Evangelism category: Humble Apologetics: Defending the Faith Today, John G. Stackhouse Jr. (Oxford).
• Biblical Studies category: The Message: The Bible in Contemporary Language, Eugene Peterson (NavPress).
• Christianity and Culture category: The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity, Philip Jenkins (Oxford).
• Christian Living category: Engaging God’s World: A Christian Vision of Faith, Learning and Living. Cornelius Plantinga Jr. (Eerdmans)
• The Church/Pastoral Leadership category: The Company of Preachers: Wisdom on Preaching, Augustine to the Present, Richard Lischer, ed. (Eerdmans)
• Fiction category: In This Mountain, Jan Karon (Viking)
• History/Biography: The Question of God: C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud Debate God, Love, Sex and the Meaning of Life, Armand M. Nicholi Jr. (Free Press).
• Missions/Global Affairs category: The New International Dictionary of Pentecostal & Charismatic Movements. Stanley M. Burgess, ed. (Zondervan)
• Spirituality category: Renovation of the Heart: Putting on the Character of Christ, Dallas Willard (NavPress).
• Theology/Ethics: Worldview: The History of a Concept, David K. Naugle (Eerdmans).