Tag: news

NEWS
1) Yearbook Office offers guidance on measuring online worship attendance

2) Faith groups send letter on nuclear dangers

PERSONNEL
3) Emily Tyler resigns as director of Brethren Volunteer Service

4) Brethren Volunteer Service winter unit ends orientation, volunteers go to project sites

UPCOMING EVENTS
5) Nurturing Ministry Skills series offered through Susquehanna Valley Ministry Center

6) New Yorker’s Emma Green to headline Bridgewater symposium on ‘Brethren and the Polarizing Pandemic’

JESUS IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD: STORIES FROM CONGREGATIONS
7) Central Roanoke team launches gatherings to prepare for conversations about reparations

8) Brethren bits: Remembering Janet Crago, job opening, new center for autistic children in China, church anniversaries, webinar series on Gaza, a prayer for 900,000 deaths to COVID in the US, and more

NEWS
1) Church of the Brethren Office of Peacebuilding and Policy signs joint letter from faith groups urging leaders to de-escalate tension, pursue peace in Ukraine

2) Church of the Brethren Benefit Trust announces two changes as it implements five strategic goals

3) Mission Advancement office makes change in gift acknowledgment and receipt process

4) Pemi church burned in violent attack in northeastern Nigeria

5) ‘Life Support Project’ provides pen pals to people serving life or long-term sentences

UPCOMING EVENTS
6) Two-part Ventures course to focus on ‘Peace, Violence, and Nonviolence’

7) Bridgewater College hosts Forum for Brethren Studies event on ‘Brethren and the Polarizing Pandemic’

8) Brethren bits: Remembering Ellis Shenk, Juniata physics students win award, Brethren Voices celebrates 200th episode, Brethren Heritage Center advertises handbells, World Council of Churches has three job openings for leadership staff

NEWS
1) COVID response plan is set in place for 2022 Annual Conference

2) National Youth Conference registration begins, more presenters are announced

3) Brethren Faith in Action round up for 2021

4) EYN reports lives lost and churches and homes burned in Kautikari attack

PERSONNEL
5) Kay Gaier and Anna Lisa Gross named to interim leadership of South/Central Indiana District

6) Brethren bits: Jim Winkler completes service with NCC, “Intro to Kingian Nonviolence” webinar, Northern Plains District offers insight sessions, CPT conversation about new name, world churches pray for Tonga, York Center member interviewed in Wall Street Journal

1) Brethren Volunteer Service holds winter orientation, seeks applicants
2) Grant sends $15,000 to Church World Service for winter tornado relief
3) Office of Peacebuilding and Policy signs faith letter calling for closing of Guantanamo
4) United Nations committee honors 73rd anniversary of Universal Declaration of Human Rights
5) CPT announces new name: Community Peacemaker Teams
6) Brethren bits: Retirement celebration for Dave Shetler, another webinar in “Children as Peacemakers” series, new volume on Contemporary Ecotheology, recent Brethren college vs. Brethren college basketball