What is the context for the short time of confession and repentance at Annual Conference 2023?
Church of the Brethren Newsline
Standing Committee makes recommendations
Standing Committee made recommendations on six new business items and two unfinished business items for Annual Conference 2023.
Church of the Brethren leaders respond following reporting of sexual abuse by former employee
Current Church of the Brethren, Inc. organizational leaders have become aware of sexual abuse by an employee in a work setting, reported to have taken place several decades ago. Both the abused victim and the alleged perpetrator were adults at the time of the abuse and both are now deceased. Action was taken by church leaders at that time, but a recently published book, Her Words, My Voice, has expanded and brought new attention to that reporting.
New baptism curriculum is available for adults with intellectual disabilities
Anabaptist Disabilities Network (ADN) has published “Believing and Belonging: An Accessible Anabaptist Membership Curriculum” for youth and adults with intellectual disabilities.
Brethren bits
In this issue: Remembering Nelda Rhoades Clark, Howard Ogburn, Berwyn Lee Oltman, and Richard (Dick) Burger; plus job openings, NCC statement opposing Supreme Court decision on affirmative action, and a gun violence event at Annual Conference sponsored by On Earth Peace
Global Mission representatives visit the DR to discuss the separation in the church
From June 9-11, as part of an ongoing attempt by the Global Mission office of the Church of the Brethren in the US to encourage unity and reconciliation in the Church of the Brethren in the Dominican Republic (Iglesia de los Hermanos Republica Dominicana), retired pastor Alix Sable of Lancaster, Pa., and Global Food Initiative (GFI) manager Jeff Boshart met with church leaders.
Junior high conference gathers youth and advisors from 11 districts at Juniata College
For the first time since 2019, junior high youth and their advisors gathered for National Junior High Conference. Eleven districts were represented in the 164 participants who spent the weekend on the campus of Juniata College in Huntingdon, Pa. Worship, a central piece of the program, invited participants to ask the question: “What Does God Want from Me?”
Ballot changes are announced for the 2023 Annual Conference
The Conference office and the Nominating Committee of the Standing Committee of district delegates have announced changes to the ballot that will be presented to the 2023 Annual Conference of the Church of the Brethren. The event takes place next week in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Conference office seeks more volunteers to staff silent auction
The Annual Conference office is calling for more volunteers to staff the silent auction taking place during the event in Cincinnati, Ohio, next week. The silent auction is sponsored by the Program and Arrangements Committee for the Conference.
Striving for peace at Freeport Church
The issue of gun violence in our country is disrupting the peace that passes all understanding, which our Prince of Peace brings to us! Like many others, Freeport (Ill.) Church of the Brethren is devastated to see innocent people, even little children, becoming victims of gun violence and losing their lives even before they know what life is all about.
