Ministry Summer Service orientation began June 2, when the six interns to serve in MSS this summer arrived at the Church of the Brethren General Offices in Elgin, Ill. Their mentors arrived Monday, June 5, and the orientation ended Wednesday.
With the sale of the upper campus of the Brethren Service Center in New Windsor, Md., June 2 marked the end of service for the following two employees.
Christiana Rice will be a keynote speaker and presenter at the Church Planting Conference hosted at Bethany Theological Seminary in Richmond, Ind., on May 16-19, 2018. The conference is sponsored by the Church of the Brethren Congregational Life Ministries.
Congregational Life Ministries is partnering with organizations in the United Kingdom to present “Crucible Webinars” in June and July, on the topics “The Virtual Self” and “The Art of Resilience: Nurturing Practices for Flourishing.” Sponsors include the Church of the Brethren Congregational Life Ministries, Anabaptist Network UK, Bristol Baptist College, Mennonite Trust, and Urban Expression UK.
More than 300 members of the greater Ambler, Pa., community packed the Church of the Brethren, where the resonating message by religious and civic leaders was “there is no place for hate in our community.” The May 25 candlelight vigil was a reaction to Ku Klux Klan literature left in the driveways of Maple Glen homes and “KKK” and four-letter words found spray-painted along the Power Line Trail in Horsham 10 days before.
Nigeria Crisis Response coordinator Roxane Hill has shared updates on the relief work ongoing in northeast Nigeria. The Nigeria Crisis Response is a joint effort of Ekklesiyar Yan’uwa a Nigeria and the Global Mission and Service and Brethren Disaster Ministries of the Church of the Brethren, working with several partner organizations in Nigeria. (Learn more at www.brethren.org/nigeriacrisis .)
NEWS
1) Most of the Chibok girls released in May were prayed for by Church of the Brethren congregations
2) Nigeria Crisis Response shares updates on its relief work
3) Bethany Seminary and EYN form educational partnership
4) EYN general secretary is first to receive doctorate from Bossey Ecumenical Institute
5) Vigil against hate draws hundreds in Ambler
UPCOMING EVENTS
6) Two ‘Crucible Webinars’ are offered this summer
REFLECTIONS
7) Moderator’s Bible study for June focuses on the ‘chosen of God’
8) Remember when: Church of the Brethren statements on care for Creation
9) Brethren bits
Sixty of the Chibok girls who were released in a prisoner swap in early May were among those who have been held in prayer by Church of the Brethren congregations since 2014. Each of those congregations has received a letter from the Church of the Brethren.
In this issue: Personnel notes, job openings, Listening Sessions in Northern Ohio District, Ministry Summer Service orientation begins, Children’s Disaster Services wraps up in Missouri, prayer requested for workcamp in Nepal, webinar organized by the Christian Peace Circle, Deacon Workshop presented at Chambersburg Church, “A Biblical Basis for Befriending Foreigners” offered at Bethany Seminary, and more news by, for, and about Brethren.
As early as 1991, the Church of the Brethren Annual Conference adopted a statement titled “Creation: Called to Care.” “Why should Christians care about the environment?” the statement reads, in part. “Simply because we learn in Genesis that God has promised to fulfill all of creation, not just humanity, and has made humans the stewards of it. …”
