Don and Doris Myers and Glenn and Helen Kinsel share memories following the Elizabethtown College luncheon.

MEALS WITH A MESSAGE

As guest speaker at the Messenger Dinner, Judy Mills Reimer, Executive Director of the General Board, shares her perspective on the "state of the church"

Music from the Bittersweet Gospel Band highlighted sharing in the Cross-Cultural meeting in a festive atmosphere. Messenger editor Fletcher Farrar thanked all the subscribers and contributors to Messenger, and Reimer later gave an address on "The State of the Church," highlighting all the excitement and energy in the denomination as well as the challenges ahead. And in Outreach, de Espinoza talked about CCD's work in Honduras and presented Brethren Witness director David Radcliff with a cross in appreciation of the Church of the Brethren's support.

Other major meal events will continue through the remainder of Conference, with CoBACE and Disaster Child Care celebrating 20th anniversaries at Monday luncheons, a Church-as-Mission dinner featuring DominicanRepublic missionaries Gerald & Rebecca Baile Crouse Monday evening, an EcumenicalLuncheon with National Council of Churches general secretary Robert Edgar Tuesday, another Church-as-Mission Dinner and the Brethren Revival Fellowship dinner Tuesday evening, and many others.

Noemi de Espinoza and David Radcliff talk about work in Honduras at the Outreach Dinner.