Theologian and author Diana Butler Bass is the featured speaker for the Church of the Brethren Ministers’ Association annual continuing education event this year, held just prior to Annual Conference. “Gratitude: The Transformative Power of Giving Thanks” is the theme for the gathering on July 3-4 in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Brethren Disaster Ministries is working with Puerto Rico District to plan its response following last year’s hurricanes. An allocation of $200,000 from the Church of the Brethren’s Emergency Disaster Fund (EDF) has been approved by the denomination’s Mission and Ministry Board to provide funding for the effort.
Church of the Brethren Newsline March 9, 2018 A thanksgiving service to celebrate the release of 10 women–including two members of Ekklesiyar Yan’uwa a Nigeria (EYN, the Church of the Brethren in Nigeria)–who had been kidnapped by Boko Haram in June 2017 is planned this Sunday in Maiduguri, Nigeria. The service is planned by the EYN Maiduguri
Through recent Annual Conference decisions* the delegate body has called the Leadership Team along with the Council of District Executives to develop a process through which the church will engage in conversations that will lead us to a “compelling vision” for our life together.
NEWS
1) Leadership Team moves compelling vision process forward
2) New international partnership welcomes seminary students
PERSONNEL
3) Bethany Seminary hires new executive director of finance
4) Brethren bits
In this issue: Remembering J. Wayne Judd and Betty Alverta Young, job openings and internships, annual Advocacy Summit of Churches for Middle East Peace, upcoming courses from the Brethren Academy for Ministerial Leadership, and more news by, for, and about Brethren.
A team of eight volunteers with Children’s Disaster Services (CDS) are serving in Oroville, Calif., at the request of the American Red Cross. The team is offering child care for families affected by the evacuation of the area under threat from the emergency at the Oroville Dam.
“A voice was heard in Ramah, wailing and loud lamentation, Rachel weeping for her children; she refused to be consoled, because they are no more.” –Matthew 2:18
NEWS
1) Paul Mundey and Pam Reist top Annual Conference ballot for 2018
2) Congregational Life Ministries issues invitation to a conversation about white supremacy
3) Church of the Brethren and EYN volunteers intermingle in Nigeria church rebuilding
4) ConocoPhillips resumes in-person annual shareholder meetings with Internet availability
5) UN implementing plan of action for religious leaders to prevent incitement to violence
6) Global Women’s Project helps EYN women attend Bethany extension courses
7) Forty years of the Global Women’s Project
UPCOMING EVENTS
8) Church planting conference has new name, new focus
9) Speakers for National Youth Conference are announced
10) Midwestern districts sponsor conference on biblical authority
REFLECTION
11) Just by our being there: Reflections on a workcamp in Nigeria
12) Brethren bits
In this issue: Remembrance, personnel notes, job openings, goats distributed in Nigeria, prayer for Syria, tell the government your service story, BVS featured in Dunker Punks podcast, Pottstown 100th anniversary, and more news by, for, and about Brethren.
