In this issue: National Junior High Sunday resources, Children’s Disaster Services training, Brethren Disaster Ministries celebrates with international partners, latest issue of Global Food Initiative newsletter, webinar with Christian Peacemaker Teams’ Cliff Kindy, webinars from On Earth Peace, seeking video of Anna Mow, and more news by, for, and about Brethren
In this issue: Material Resources donations and shipments, Information Coffee Hour for prospective BVSers, EYN Women’s Ministry aids widows, On Earth Peace offers online book club, Missouri and Arkansas District celebrates its 30th anniversary, Peace Day events at Timbercrest, and more news by, for, and about Brethren
NEWS
1) United Nations General Assembly commemorates calls for the elimination of racism
REFLECTIONS ON NATIONAL YOUNG ADULT CONFERENCE 2021
2) The idea of ‘unfolding grace’ brought awareness to the ways God works in these hard times
3) Unfolding grace digitally
4) WE. ARE. HERE.
PERSONNEL
5) Beth Sollenberger retires from leadership of South Central Indiana District
6) Scott Douglas retires from Brethren Benefit Trust
UPCOMING EVENTS
7) Annual Conference office and Womaen’s Caucus co-sponsor webinar ‘From Nomination to Election’
JESUS IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD: STORIES FROM CONGREGATIONS
8) Westminster Church offers webinar on ‘Racism and the Christian Response’
9) Cabool Church offers workshop on ‘Who Will Be a Witness?’
10) Lafayette Church celebrates 75th anniversary
11) Brethren bits: Material Resources donations and shipments, Information Coffee Hour for prospective BVSers, EYN Women’s Ministry aids widows, Missouri and Arkansas District celebrates its 30th anniversary, Peace Day events at Timbercrest, and more
NEWS
1) Mission and Ministry Board approves grant for new collaboration to aid Afghanistan evacuees
2) CDS volunteers help welcome Afghan children and families evacuated to the US
3) Disaster grant supports home rebuilding by Congolese Brethren following eruption of Nyiragongo volcano
4) Global Food Initiative grants go to Haiti, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Honduras, New Orleans
5) Haitians at the border: A Brethren response
6) National Council of Churches laments the treatment of Haitians at the US border
7) Manchester to name building in honor of first Black students
PERSONNEL
8) Lee-Lani Wright to serve, Debbie Roberts to retire from Pacific Northwest District executive team
UPCOMING EVENTS
9) National Youth Conference 2022 registration opens Dec. 1
10) Annual Clergy Tax Seminar is scheduled for Jan. 29 as an online event
11) Susquehanna Valley Ministry Center announces upcoming continuing education events
RESOURCES
12) Brethren Press’s Advent devotional for 2021, Hoosier Prophet, Maria’s Kit of Comfort among new resources for Brethren
JESUS IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD: STORIES FROM CONGREGATIONS
13) Franklin Grove Church collaborates with Dixon congregation to celebrate the International Day of Peace
14) Ephrata Church encourages families to host block parties
15) Mountville Church provides ‘re-leaf’ and school kits
16) West Goshen Church honors retiring pastor’s ministry
17) First Chicago holds Zoom conversations with BVSers
FEATURE
18) Brethren and the National Farm Worker Ministry: 50 years of service
19) Brethren bits: Correction, building the Gisenyi Church in Rwanda, personnel, jobs, advocacy against military support for Saudi Arabia, Brethren in Spain contribute to volcano fund, and district, camp, and college news
In this issue: Correction, building the Gisenyi Church in Rwanda, personnel and job openings, advocacy against US military support for Saudi Arabia, Brethren in Spain contribute to volcano fund, and district, camp, and college news.
NATIONAL OLDER ADULT CONFERENCE 2021
1) NOAC keynoter Karen González speaks on immigration and the church
2) Lisa Sharon Harper takes NOAC along on a journey wrestling with identity
3) McPherson hosts a NOAC ‘watch party’
4) NOAC by the numbers
NEWS
5) Church of the Brethren delegation visits site of earthquake in Haiti
6) Kulp Theological Seminary in Nigeria welcomes 36 students into degree and diploma programs
7) COBYS Family Services 25th annual Bike & Hike sets new record
PERSONNEL
8) Nick Beam to serve in leadership for Southern Ohio and Kentucky District
UPCOMING EVENTS
9) On Earth Peace invites participation in this year’s International Day of Peace
10) ‘What’s in a Name?’ presented by Brethren Historical Library and Archives
11) Grace, play, and delight: The 2021 Ministry of Writing Colloquium of ESR and Bethany Seminary
12) Ventures course offers introduction to talking about race
JESUS IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD: STORIES FROM CONGREGATIONS
13) Prue Yelinek featured speaker at annual Dunker Church Service
14) Bridgewater church hosts Brethren & Mennonite Heritage Center lectures
15) Community Church of the Brethren participates in virtual CROP Walk
16) Painesville Church school and daycare completes 40-plus years of service to community
FEATURE
17) Reflecting on a FaithX summer
18) Brethren bits: BVS cancels fall orientation and invites new volunteers to join in the winter, Selective Service and the draft may come up this week in the House, job opening, personnel notes, districts cancel or shift events online due to COVID, more
In this issue: BVS cancels fall orientation and invites new volunteers to join in the winter, future of Selective Service and the draft may come up this week in the House, job opening and personnel notes, districts cancel or shift events online due to COVID, and more news by, for, and about Brethren
NEWS
1) Children’s Disaster Services responds to Hurricane Ida, Afghan evacuation
2) Office of Peacebuilding and Policy signs letter supporting Afghan refugees, urging humanitarian action by Biden administration
3) Action alert invites Brethren to urge Biden administration to resettle Afghan refugees, reduce military spending
4) EDF grants support earthquake relief in Haiti
5) Yearbook survey invites responses from all Church of the Brethren congregations
6) Quaker and feminist organizations denounce vote on drafting women
UPCOMING EVENTS
7) NOAC will ‘overflow with hope’ next week
8) Annual Conference office and Womaen’s Caucus co-sponsor webinar ‘From Nomination to Election’
9) Second part of mental health webinar by Janelle Bitikofer will be offered in October
10) National Youth Conference 2022 youth worker applications are live
JESUS IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD: STORIES FROM CONGREGATIONS
11) Crest Manor Church collects Clean-Up Kits for Church World Service
12) Cedar Run Church celebrates 125 years of continuing the work of Jesus
FEATURE
13) Remembering Dale Brown, professor emeritus at Bethany Seminary and a leading theologian in the Church of the Brethren
14) Brethren bits: Answered prayer in South Sudan, personnel notes including the retirement of Doug Philips as director of Brethren Woods and the selection of Brian Bert as executive director of Camp Blue Diamond, jobs, Office of Ministry newsletter, and more
In this issue: Answered prayer in South Sudan, personnel notes including the retirement of Doug Philips as director of Brethren Woods and the selection of Brian Bert as executive director of Camp Blue Diamond, job openings, Office of Ministry newsletter, and more news by, for, and about Brethren.
NEWS
1) A statement of concern for Afghanistan from Church of the Brethren general secretary David Steele
2) Haitian Brethren leaders travel to earthquake zone
3) Brethren Volunteer Service holds in-person summer orientation, plans in-person fall orientation
4) Cabinet gathers in Colorado for onsite meeting preparing for National Youth Conference
5) ‘How has the pandemic changed your worship habits?’ Yearbook takes survey
PERSONNEL
6) Dana Cassell resigns from the Thriving in Ministry Initiative
7) Church of the Brethren says goodbye to three BVSers, welcomes new intern
UPCOMING EVENTS
8) New Ventures season begins with course on ‘Christ, Culture, and God-talk for the Coming Church’
9) COBYS celebrates 25th Annual Bike & Hike
JESUS IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD: STORIES FROM CONGREGATIONS
10) Harrisburg First Church of the Brethren tends its community garden
11) Pleasant View Church celebrates 245 years
12) Stone Bridge Church celebrates 150 years
13) Lower Miami congregation to support Honduran family
14) Coventry and Parkerford congregations adopt families after apartment fire
15) Brethren bits: The logo for the 2022 Annual Conference is released, prayer requests from Global Mission, job opening, Calling the Called, ‘The Truth About Military Recruiting,’ Atlantic Southeast’s Family Peace Camp, McPherson record enrollment, more
