By Laura Whitman
National Older Adult Conference is only a few months away! If you don’t have a way to get there, why not take a bus? Four buses from around the country will be heading to Lake Junaluska, N.C., for NOAC in September.
Following are the places and districts from which buses will leave for NOAC, and contact information for each bus:
— Leaving from Hershey (Pa.) Spring Creek Church of the Brethren, contact Bill and Kitty Puffenberger at 717-367-7021 or wvpuff@comcast.net
— Leaving from Brethren Village Retirement Community in Lancaster, Pa., contact Bill and Kitty Puffenberger at 717-367-7021 or wvpuff@comcast.net , or Bob and MaryAnn Breneman at 717-725-3197 or mabobren@gmail.com
— Leaving from Western Plains District, contact David and Bonnie Furth at 620-245-0674 or davebonnie@cox.net
— Leaving from Shenandoah District, contact Sandy Kinsey at 540-234-8555 or districtoffice@shencob.org
Contact the persons listed above with any questions about the bus transportation, including dates and fees. For more information about NOAC 2015, and to register for the conference, go to www.brethren.org/noac . The conference takes place Sept. 7-11 at Lake Junaluska (N.C.) Conference and Retreat Center in the mountains of western North Carolina.
— Laura Whitman is a Brethren Volunteer Service worker and special projects coordinator in Congregational Life Ministries. She is helping to coordinate NOAC among other projects.