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newsmakers Ben Sells was named president of The Next Step: North American Partnership in Mission Training. Sells is responsible for directing efforts of North American churches, mission agencies and educational institutions as they provide missionary training for cross-cultural workers. Previously he was the director of the IMB/Missionary Learning Center in Richmond, Va.

calendar May 24- June 2: The Christian Economic Development Institute will offer hands-on training for churches or ministries interested in teaching the poor to help themselves. Open to missionaries and church leaders, the session will be held in Bangkok, Thailand. A later session will be held August 2-11 at Covenant College in Lookout Mountain, Ga. A May 12 e-mail based distance learning version of the program will also be available. For more information, visit www.chalmers.org or call 706-419-1805.

June 12-17: The Proclamation Evangelism Network will hold the third annual proclamation evangelism eSchool, an interactive forum with plenary speakers, training workships and hands-on evangelistic outreach, at the Billy Graham Center, Wheaton College, Wheaton, Ill. Speakers include Lon Allison, Mark Anderson, Loren Cunningham, Steve Douglass, Joyce Meyer and more. For more information, e-mail [email protected] or visit www.pen-net.org.

June 27-July 9 (Houghton College, Houghton, New York) and June 28-July 10 (Southhaven, Miss.): Third Culture Kid Pre-Field Orientation. The program provides resources for overseas teaching personnel to continue their professional growth and development and for maintaining teacher certification. Boarding parents and families are also welcome. Registration deadline is May 24. For more information or to register, call 719-867-0210 or e-mail [email protected].

July 6-10: INTERuM and Crescent Project will hold the Summer Institute on Muslim Studies in southern Spain, a 4-day/40-hour interactive training course followed by a one-week outreach to a North African Muslim country. “SIMS-Spain” is an intense training and outreach experience that prepares you to live the gospel in a way that invites Muslims to the Lord. For more information, e-mail [email protected] or visit www.interum.org.

August 23-27: Worldview Resource Group will conduct a one-week cross-cultural church planting seminar at the Mission Training International center in Palmer Lake, Colo. The cost is $675 for a single and $1,300 per couple. For more information, visit www.wrg3.org or call 866-750-9743.

September 30-October 2: Fall conference for Sustainable Resources 2004 in Boulder, Colo. Opportunities for non-profits, donors, funding agencies, humanitarian organizations, educators, engineers, business people, volunteers, students and representatives of developing communities to meet, learn from each other, network, discuss new approaches for outreach and create new partnerships. Visit www.sustainableresources.org or call 888-317-1600.