Word: koinonia
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During their eventual reconciliation, the couple decided to sell their possessions, donate the proceeds and move to Koinonia Farm, a Christian commune in Americus, Ga. It was there that they conceived their first ideas about building homes with no-interest mortgages for the poor. The family packed up for Mbandaka, Zaďre (now Democratic Republic of Congo), in 1973 to develop a program there...
...Undergraduate Council (UC) passed its final grants package of the semester and appointed a technology coordinator in a brief hour-long meeting last night. The council’s 10th grants package allocated $15,437 to 64 campus organizations, including $290 to the Asian Baptist Student Koinonia for Friday night bible study. In late November, the council voted to suspend its bylaws and award a grant to the Asian American Christian Fellowship (AACF) despite the group’s constitution, which stipulates that its executive board members be Christian. In the past, the council has not awarded grants to organizations...
...Lurie says he was troubled by the constitutions of only two groups—the Harvard-Radcliffe Christian Fellowship (HRCF) and the Asian Baptist Student Koinonia (ABSK)—which have strict eligibility requirements for leadership positions...
...council meeting last month, representative Jason L. Lurie ’05 charged that the Harvard Asian Baptist Student Koinonia (ABSK) and HRCF discriminate on the basis of religion, and said that supporting these organizations would violate the council’s constitution...
...council set aside its grants to HRCF and the Harvard Asian Baptist Student Koinonia (HABSK) for future consideration, later voting to award the money to HABSK but tabling the grant for HRCF. Lurie has not been forgiven by members of Harvard’s Christian community, who have called his charges of discrimination unfounded and misleading and have angrily denounced his candidacy for the council presidency...