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Newsline for November 16, 2018

November 16, 2018

NEWS
1) Fire likely destroys Paradise (Calif.) congregation
2) SVMC celebrates its silver anniversary
3) Haiti Medical Project makes progress on pure water program
4) Conference examines Native American boarding school history

PERSONNEL
5) Office of Ministry seeks program manager for new initiative

UPCOMING EVENTS
6) Workcamp Office announces 2019 summer schedule
7) NOAC planning committee unveils 2019 logo

RESOURCES
8) Brethren Academy offers “Christianity in the Early-Modern and Modern Worlds”

9) Brethren bits

Brethren bits for November 16, 2018

November 16, 2018

In this issue: Remembrance, personnel, Brethren Historical Committee, Action Alert, district conferences and news, workshops, recognitions, “Brethren Voices,” and more.

NOAC planning committee unveils 2019 logo

November 16, 2018

Planners of the 2019 Church of the Brethren National Older Adult Conference (NOAC) have unveiled the logo for the event, highlighting the conference theme, “Reaching … across generations, beyond differences, through conflict … into joy,” based on Romans 15:7.

Office of Ministry seeks program manager for new initiative

November 16, 2018

The Office of Ministry is seeking a part-time program manager for the Lilly Endowment, Inc.-funded program “Part-Time Pastor; Full-Time Church.” The program manager will work with an advisory committee to implement this new program initiative that addresses the practical needs of multivocational ministers in the Church of the Brethren.

Nancy Sollenberger Heishman announces new initiative

Conference examines Native American boarding school history

November 16, 2018

The National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition on Oct. 2-3 held their first-ever boarding school healing conference, called “The Spirit Survives: A National Movement Toward Healing.”

Monica McFadden and Dotti Seitz at the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition conference

Workcamp Office announces 2019 summer schedule

November 16, 2018

The Church of the Brethren Workcamp Office has released dates and locations for the 2019 workcamp schedule. A total of 18 different workcamps will be offered for junior high, senior high, young adult, and “We Are Able” participants.

Haiti Medical Project makes progress on pure water program

November 16, 2018

The efforts of the Church of the Brethren’s Haiti Medical Project (HMP) to provide pure water to 20 communities via two dozen projects by the end of 2020 are taking root.

Fire likely destroys Paradise congregation

November 12, 2018

A Church of the Brethren congregation is among the many places impacted by the deadly wildfires raging in California this month. Paradise (Calif.) Community Church of the Brethren, located about 15 miles east of Chico in the northern part of the state, is assumed to be destroyed, along with its parsonage. Pacific Southwest District executive

Paradise Church of the Brethren building

SVMC celebrates its silver anniversary

November 8, 2018

The Susquehanna Valley Ministry Center (SVMC) celebrated its 25th anniversary Nov. 3 at Chambersburg (Pa.) Church of the Brethren

Newsline for November 2, 2018

November 2, 2018

NEWS
1) Three new grants support disaster recovery, farming efforts

2) Elizabethtown College re-opens expanded Young Center

3) Manchester’s new Intercultural Center offers unique space

4) Western Pennsylvania District adopts “Resolution on Biblical Marriage”
PERSONNEL
5) Gail Connerley named executive director of institutional advancement at Bethany
6) Bethany seeks faculty position in Ministry Formation
UPCOMING EVENTS
7) Brethren Academy offers “Race and the Congregation” course

8) Brethren bits