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A Global Gathering
Calvin College Spark
Summer 2006

View this article as a JPEG fileThe Willow Room of the Calvin College Prince Conference Center filled with the strains of Old Hundredth, sung in English, Spanish, French, Japanese and Mandarin Chinese. Before sitting down for a dinner to kick off the 2006 Calvin Symposium on Worship, nearly four dozen overseas guests stood up to worship in one voice but five different languages. Guests found that it's one thing to read about the praise of God "from every tribe and language and people and nation" in Revelation 5; it's another thing to experience it.

The Calvin Institute of Christian Worship (CICW) welcomed 43 overseas guests from 13 countries - including China, France, Japan, the Netherlands, Romania, Singapore, South Africa and the United Kingdom - to this year's Calvin Symposium on Worship. ... International guests joined in worship, fellowship and workshops. ...

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