Tag: news

NEWS
1) Brethren Disaster Ministries closes Coastal Carolinas project, Children’s Disaster Services continues work at border

2) Office of Peacebuilding and Policy welcomes redesignation of TPS for Haitian refugees

3) Forging peace: Turning guns into garden tools

PERSONNEL
4) Randall Yoder to serve as interim district executive for Western Plains

UPCOMING EVENTS
5) What is planned for district conferences this year?

6) Gorman to present on the church in 1 Corinthians for Ministers’ Association virtual event

RESOURCES
7) Anabaptist Disabilities Network creates Disability Language Guide

8) Brethren bits: Remembering Martha Bowman, #TodayWeWearOrange, jobs, volunteer openings, camping news, GFI shout out, virtual experiences of the Holy Land from CMEP, video from CPT Palestine, peace and justice webinars from LMPC, “Anti-Racist in Christ”

NEWS
1) Emergency Disaster Fund grants go to the DRC, Venezuela, Mexico
2) Bethany to welcome students for in-person classes in August
3) WCC Executive Committee sees hope for the future while making urgent calls to address global crises

UPCOMING EVENTS
4) Brethren Academy for Ministerial Leadership announces latest listing of courses
5) Webinar to discuss providing mutual support when people experience mental illness

6) Brethren bits: Job openings, FaithX commissioning resources, Chicago Brass Band concert at General Offices, #WelcomeWithDignity, Bible studies for the Pilgrimage of Justice and Peace, webinar “Remembering Past Massacres,” congregational news, and more

NEWS
1) Brethren Volunteer Service reaffirms statement on racism

2) Church members are invited to sign up to pray for Annual Conference 2021

3) Global Food Initiative grants go to projects in Nigeria, Ecuador, Uganda, US

4) Material Resources program seeks more donations of disaster relief kits

5) Bethany Seminary receives Lilly Endowment planning grant to bolster antiracism initiatives

PERSONNEL
6) Norman and Carol Spicher Waggy conclude interim assignment in Global Mission

7) David Shetler to retire from leadership of Southern Ohio and Kentucky District

RESOURCES
8) Shine offers new Sunday school curriculum resources

UPCOMING EVENTS
9) ‘Thinking Theologically with Our Hands’ webinar to take place June 13
10) Song and Story Fest 2021 to be in-person at Camp Blue Diamond

FEATURE
11) Paul’s prayer for the ‘Big Meeting’

12) Brethren bits: Correction, remembering Mary Catherine Dowery and Bernice (Brandt) Pence, prayer concerns from Nigeria and India, music groups rehearse at the General Offices, Tennessee’s oldest Church of the Brethren is reopening, the Annual Conference mug, and more

NEWS
1) Most Brethren camps are planning to be ‘in-person’ this summer

2) BFIA grants go to three more churches

3) Hillcrest School issues statement about former principal

PERSONNEL
4) Walt Wiltschek to serve as Illinois and Wisconsin District executive minister

5) Brethren bits: Remembering Ernie Bolz, continued prayer for India and Venezuela, Bermudian Church of the Brethren history, Southern Ohio and Kentucky District offers virtual camping, On Earth Peace webinars, Laszakovitz sermon chosen for El Camino collection

NEWS
1) Bethany Seminary to confer 26 degrees and certificates to Class of 2021

2) EDF grants support CDS work on border, COVID-19 relief in Nigeria and around the world

3) Brethren Benefit Trust board affirms five strategic goals

4) BBT issues annual lists of companies screened from investments for Dept. of Defense contracts

5) On Earth Peace holds early April board meeting

6) EYN 74th Majalisa commends six districts, lists resolutions

PERSONNEL
7) Rhonda Pittman Gingrich is hired as director of Annual Conference

8) Jennifer Houser to direct the Brethren Historical Library and Archives

9) Zechariah Houser to coordinate short-term service for the Church of the Brethren

10) Fabiola Fernandez resigns from Church of the Brethren’s Information Technology department

11) Kim Gingerich to be interim program assistant for Brethren Disaster Ministries

12) Lee Marsh to assist at Church of the Brethren General Offices

UPCOMING EVENTS
13) Brethren Volunteer Service offers in-person summer orientation unit

14) New and Renew virtual conference to occur next week

15) Brethren bits: Prayer for India, update on US deportations to Haiti, Shenandoah District to hold in-person disaster auction, SVMC announces changes in its governing board, Bridgewater College celebrates commencement, and more

NEWS
1) Children’s Disaster Services deploys team to work with children at border
2) Moderator’s Town Hall features Brethren historians
3) Imagine! God’s earth and people restored

UPCOMING EVENTS
4) National Youth Conference 2022 theme, dates, and cost are announced
5) NOAC service project will fund books for Junaluska Elementary School
6) Multivocational pastors are invited to summer book study
7) ‘Play, on Purpose’ webinar to take place May 11

8) Brethren bits: Prayer request for India, personnel notice, NOAC registration opens May 3, filming has begun for Annual Conference, concern for Haitian deportations, video from Ecuador, and much more