In this issue: Remembering Stanley Barkdoll, job opening at The Cedars, save the date to download Meeting at the Margins Advent worship resources, Shine Community Connect Zoom, Brethren Disaster Ministries volunteer update, and much more.
Jay Wittmeyer, well known in Church of the Brethren circles as a former Global Mission executive, currently executive director of the Lombard (Ill.) Mennonite Peace Center, led a workshop titled “Restorative Conversations” for the Church of the Brethren’s Northern Indiana District.
The Church of the Brethren Mission and Ministry Board began considering the ministry priorities and leadership qualities needed in the denomination’s next general secretary during its fall meeting Oct. 16-18 at the General Offices in Elgin, Ill.
Catholic Medical Mission Board (CMMB) will host a ribbon-cutting Thursday, Oct. 22, at 3 p.m. (Eastern time) at the Brethren Service Center in New Windsor, Md., the new home of CMMB’s Distribution Center. CMMB CEO Mary Beth Powers and Church of the Brethren general secretary David Steele will speak during the ceremony. Attendees can assemble hygiene kits to support communities in need globally.
Church of the Brethren congregations and organizations that have used Eder Financial’s organizational investing and retirement services need to work to transfer those accounts to Everence as soon as possible, if they haven’t done so already.
David A. Steele has announced that he will conclude his service as General Secretary of the Church of the Brethren on Aug. 31, 2028, at the end of his current term.
The members of Brethren Volunteer Service (BVS) Unit 340 have completed orientation, held at Camp Emmaus in Mount Morris, Ill., and have begun work at their project placements. Find out more about BVS and how to volunteer. The volunteers, their home congregations or hometowns, and project sites: Mia Benjamin of Antioch Church of the Brethren
By Sharon Brugger Norton What a pleasant surprise, just five minutes before I was planning on leaving my office in Elgin, Ill., to head home to Indiana, to have Heidi Gross knock on the door and hand me copies of the new Pastor’s Manual in French and Haitian Creole. Fresh off the press! The Pastor’s
“Troy woman lights up about laundry outreach” is the title of a Dayton Daily News article about a laundry ministry of Troy (Ohio) Church of the Brethren. Beverly Johnston, a 75-year-old retired nurse, in July was named as a “Dayton Daily News Community Gem” for founding her church’s laundry ministry.
“Let the Children Come to Me: Protecting Children from Militarized Violence” (Mark 9:36-37) is the theme for the next Christian Citizenship Seminar (CCS) sponsored by the Church of the Brethren’s Youth and Young Adult Ministry. The 2027 CCS is planned for April 17-21 in Washington, D.C.
