The Mission and Ministry Board approved a budget parameter for Core Ministries for 2024, continued work on the strategic plan, welcomed international guests, recognized board members completing their terms of service, and more.
Standing Committee reports, EYN visit, attendance and offering, and hotel shenanigans
Taylor Swift unwittingly complicates life for Annual Conference attendees.
On Tuesday, July 4, the moderator and moderator-elect met with eight visitors from Ekklesiyar Yan’uwa a Nigeria (EYN), the Church of the Brethren in Nigeria.
What is the context for the short time of confession and repentance at Annual Conference 2023?
Standing Committee made recommendations on six new business items and two unfinished business items for Annual Conference 2023.
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.
Anabaptist Disabilities Network (ADN) has published “Believing and Belonging: An Accessible Anabaptist Membership Curriculum” for youth and adults with intellectual disabilities.
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
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.
