January 23 – Jeremy Courtney, "The World is a Scary Place, Love Anyway" – 12:30 p.m.

The Dogwood Center is once again a remote location for the live broadcast of Calvin College’s 2017 January Series.
On Monday, January 23, Jeremy Courtney will present “The World is a Scary Place, Love Anyway“.
In the heart of conflict, there is only one kind of love big enough to change a nation: a love that strikes first. Jeremy Courtney is the founder of Preemptive Love Coalition, a development organization that works across Iraq providing lifesaving surgeries for children and more recently responds to the daily needs of those living in the shadow of ISIS. He is also the author of Preemptive Love, a book that invites you to walk along the front lines of the struggle for peace with Jeremy in a firsthand account of his team’s quest to mend hearts and save lives in the world’s most notorious war-torn country. Jeremy hosts conversations about peacemaking and Muslim-Christian relations and shares stories of love and hope from the front lines of Syria and Iraq, where he has lived for over a decade with his wife and two children.

The Dogwood Center, a remote site for the Calvin College January Series, is supported in part by the Fremont Area Community Foundation.