The Annual Conference office has announced the ballot to be presented at this summer’s Conference on July 10-14 in Omaha, Neb. Topping the ballot are two candidates for Annual Conference moderator-elect–Marla Bieber Abe and Madalyn Metzger–and two candidates for Annual Conference secretary–Connie R. Burkholder and David K. Shumate. Candidates for numerous additional offices also have been announced.
“We solicit for your prayers. The wife of the pastor of EYN LCC [local church] Wachirakabi has been kidnapped last night. Let’s commit her to God in prayers for His miraculous intervention in the situation,” Anthony A. Ndamsai shared via WhatsApp. Cecilia John Anthony was reportedly kidnapped from a village in Askira/ Uba Local Government Area of Borno State.
Dan McFadden has been hired by the Church of the Brethren as interim director of Brethren Volunteer Service (BVS) on a part-time basis, beginning Feb. 21.
At Potsdam Church of the Brethren, in rural southern Ohio, we started a program seven years ago to reach out to the kids in our small neighborhood. When the Brethren Faith in Action (BFIA) grant became available to us, we applied. The idea for this year was to raise the quality of care that we could offer.
In this issue: Remembering Elaine Sollenberger, reporting from Rwanda, Ecumenical Advocacy Days 2022, Black Immigrant Advocacy, celebrating 500 registrations for NYC “and room for more!”
NEWS
1) Annual Conference ballot for 2022 is announced
2) Recipients of the Church of the Brethren Nursing Scholarship share their passion for nursing
3) EYN leadership solicits prayers as pastor’s wife held by kidnappers
PERSONNEL
4) Dan McFadden to serve as interim director of Brethren Volunteer Service
JESUS IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD: STORIES FROM CONGREGATIONS
5) Potsdam Church uses BFIA grant to enhance its ‘Kid’s Club’ ministry
6) Brethren bits: Remembering Elaine Sollenberger, reporting from Rwanda, Ecumenical Advocacy Days 2022, Black Immigrant Advocacy, celebrating 500 registrations for NYC ‘and room for more!’
The Church of the Brethren provides scholarships of up to $2,000 for RN and graduate nurse candidates and up to $1,000 for LPN candidates. These scholarships are awarded to a limited number of applicants each year, made possible by the Health, Education, and Research Endowment. Grants are available to members of the Church of the Brethren enrolled in LPN, RN, or nursing graduate programs. Two of our nursing scholarship recipients share their passion for nursing…
NEWS
1) Yearbook Office offers guidance on measuring online worship attendance
2) Faith groups send letter on nuclear dangers
PERSONNEL
3) Emily Tyler resigns as director of Brethren Volunteer Service
4) Brethren Volunteer Service winter unit ends orientation, volunteers go to project sites
UPCOMING EVENTS
5) Nurturing Ministry Skills series offered through Susquehanna Valley Ministry Center
6) New Yorker’s Emma Green to headline Bridgewater symposium on ‘Brethren and the Polarizing Pandemic’
JESUS IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD: STORIES FROM CONGREGATIONS
7) Central Roanoke team launches gatherings to prepare for conversations about reparations
8) Brethren bits: Remembering Janet Crago, job opening, new center for autistic children in China, church anniversaries, webinar series on Gaza, a prayer for 900,000 deaths to COVID in the US, and more
As part of its commitment to make local faith-based reparations to repair historical and current racist practices, a team at Central Church of the Brethren in Roanoke, Va., has launched regular gatherings with Black and white faith communities.
The Church of the Brethren’s Office of Peacebuilding and Policy is one of the faith groups that signed a letter to President Biden calling on the US administration to “seize this moment and move us closer to a world free from the existential threat of nuclear war.”
