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.
One of the older Nigerian workcampers came up to me in our second week in Michika and said, “You are an inspiration. If you can leave your comfortable lives to come here and work with us, then I too can come out of my home to work on my church.”
In continued work together to rebuild the devastated church denomination in Nigeria, members of Ekklesiyar Yan’uwa a Nigeria (the Church of the Brethren in Nigeria) and the Church of the Brethren in the US converged at the tumble-down church building of EYN’s LCC No. 1, Michika congregation in Adamawa State. This is the place where EYN president Joel Billi pastored until Sept. 7, 2014, when the church was attacked, and some members were killed. Assistant pastor Yahaya Ahmadu was shot to death and the entire church structure including the pastorium, offices, schools, library, stores, church building, and property, was set ablaze by the Islamist Jihadists known as Boko Haram.
Church of the Brethren Newsline February 8, 2018 Registration opened in mid-January for the 2018 National Youth Conference (NYC) planned for July 21-26 in Fort Collins, Colo. As of Feb. 8, 1,067 youth, advisors, staff, and volunteers have registered–but many more are expected before registration closes on April 30. NYC is offered every four years for youth
Six midwestern districts of the Church of the Brethren including Illinois and Wisconsin, Michigan, Northern Indiana, Northern Ohio, South Central Indiana, and Southern Ohio, are sponsoring a conference titled “Conversations about Biblical Authority.”
