The Jewish holiday of Shavuot begins sundown Sunday night May 27, 2012. Jews around the world welcome this time which is also referred to as the “Feast of weeks”, “Pentecost” or “Season of the giving of the law”. It derives its name from the fact that it was to occur exactly 7 weeks from the Sabbath day after Passover. Many disciples do not realize the tremendous significance of this holiday and even fewer understand its correlation with the beginning of the church as described in the second chapter of Acts.

HOPE worldwide has an immediate opening for a Program Accountant to work in its Wayne, PA headquarters office. Applicants should possess a Bachelor’s degree in accounting or business/finance and 2-4 years accounting experience or no degree and four or more years of accounting experience.

Three disciples in the Denver Church of Christ have created a mobile app for the First Principles series of Bible studies that have been widely used among the International Churches of Christ to help people become Christians. They are looking for more study series to add. See the message below from Ed Partch, developer.

Just download this template which has news from around the world and links to more stories on www.DisciplesToday.org

For the other side of your bulletin, you can download the attached template for local news and stories in your ministry, house church, etc. This makes for an easy "Page 2" for your local congregation's bulletin!

If you already have a bulletin, you can simply print the International News Bulletin as a two sided insert to your current publication.

Joe Cepeda and Michael Razzen are the current host and co-host of a Facebook page called SADCOCM (San Antonio Deaf Community Open-caption Movie)

Michael is the host of the Deaf Night Out on the 4th Friday of every month. Their goal is to expose the Deaf Community to the open-caption new release movies. They communicate with each other by videophone, texts, and emails, planning in advance for each open-caption movie event.

On March 2012, Joe contacted the movie theater manager, Brandon Wheeler, at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, to request that on May 4, 2012, Avengers be the 1st open-caption movie showed. What happened was truly amazing!

Sonja Kill Memorial Hospital Opens in Kampot, Cambodia

Kendrick Kahler, Chief Clinical Officer and Nurse Daniel Moho examine an elderly patient.

April 1, 2012 was the day HOPE worldwide opened its outpatient department of the Sonja Kill Memorial Hospital in Kampot. Approximately 300 families and local health partners participated in the opening. We also conducted a health fair with a variety of health stations for adults and children. Present were Mrs. Rosemary Kill, one of the cofounders who built the hospital, and Dr. Franz Marcos, international project director for KMW a chief funder of the hospital.