NEWS
1) Brethren Volunteer Service reaffirms statement on racism
2) Church members are invited to sign up to pray for Annual Conference 2021
3) Global Food Initiative grants go to projects in Nigeria, Ecuador, Uganda, US
4) Material Resources program seeks more donations of disaster relief kits
5) Bethany Seminary receives Lilly Endowment planning grant to bolster antiracism initiatives
PERSONNEL
6) Norman and Carol Spicher Waggy conclude interim assignment in Global Mission
7) David Shetler to retire from leadership of Southern Ohio and Kentucky District
RESOURCES
8) Shine offers new Sunday school curriculum resources
UPCOMING EVENTS
9) ‘Thinking Theologically with Our Hands’ webinar to take place June 13
10) Song and Story Fest 2021 to be in-person at Camp Blue Diamond
FEATURE
11) Paul’s prayer for the ‘Big Meeting’
12) Brethren bits: Correction, remembering Mary Catherine Dowery and Bernice (Brandt) Pence, prayer concerns from Nigeria and India, music groups rehearse at the General Offices, Tennessee’s oldest Church of the Brethren is reopening, the Annual Conference mug, and more