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222nd Annual Conference Richmond, Virginia July 12 - 16, 2008 |
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Tuesday, July 15
Photo Album
[Highlights | Business | Feature | Worship]
 Photo by Regina Roberts |
 Photo by Sarah Kovacs |
| The 300th Anniversary Committee offered a special event several times during the Conference: an interactive dramatic experience of the conditions of the first Brethren who made the trans-Atlantic crossing from Europe. Participants received symbolic amounts of food representing typical ship's rations of the time, and even were "sprinkled" with water symbolic of the rough weather of the Atlantic crossing. | |
 The Brethren band Mutual Kumquat gave a concert for the youth and young adults. Photo by Justin Hollenberg |
 The youth enjoyed a field trip to the King's Dominion amusement park. Photo by Justin Hollenberg |
 King's Dominion wore out this member of the youth group. Photo by Justin Hollenberg |
 The 2008 Youth Peace Travel Team was at the On Earth Peace breakfast. Photo by Glenn Riegel |
 The 300th Anniversary Conference was an opportunity for 14 past Annual Conference moderators to gather for a once-in-a-lifetime photograph. Photo by Glenn Riegel |
 Auctioneer Wilbur Hosler (left) sold off the Conference quilts and wall-hangings at the annual quilt auction for hunger. The auction and quilt-making are sponsored by the Association for the Arts in the Church of the Brethren. Photo by Ken Wenger |
 Annual Conference moderator James Beckwith holds a grand-child. Photo by Keith Hollenberg |
 A fountain in historic downtown Richmond. Photo by Sarah Kovacs |
 The Gather 'Round curriculum of Brethren Press and the Mennonite Publishing Network sponsored a reception. Shown here are boxes of introductory materials available from Brethren Press. Photo by Sarah Kovacs |
 The Brethren Witness/Washington Office booth offered fair trade organic chocolate. Photo by Sarah Kovacs |
 Joseph Helfrich sang during the drama on the life of Brethren martyr Ted Studebaker, a Church of the Brethren volunteer who was killed in the Vietnam War. Photo by Ken Wenger |
 An evening witness was held by members and friends of the Brethren Mennonite Council for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Interests (BMC). The group stood silently holding photographs of people who have left the Church of the Brethren or who have felt excluded by the church's position on homosexuality. Photo by Regina Roberts |
 Photo by Glenn Riegel |
 Parents and children were among those who somberly toured the Eyes Wide Open exhibit of boots and shoes of those killed in the Iraq War. The exhibit displayed a symbolic collection of boots of Virginian soldiers killed in the conflict, along with shoes symbolic of the more than one million Iraqis who have died in the war. Photo by Glenn Riegel |
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 Photo by Cheryl Brumbaugh-Cayford |
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 A pair of shoes worn by Tom Fox was included in the exhibit. Fox was a Quaker and Christian Peacemaker Teams member who was taken hostage in Baghdad, and killed by his captors while serving as a volunteer peacemaker in Iraq. Photo by Glenn Riegel |
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