NEWS 1) Brethren Disaster Ministries asks for prayer for Puerto Rico2) CDS Critical Response Care serves children, families affected by mass shootings3) Compelling Vision Process Team issues post-Annual Conference report PERSONNEL 4) Roxanne Aguirre resigns from Brethren Academy5) Donna March retires from Brethren Benefit Trust6) Colleen Michael retires, Pacific Northwest District appoints interim team7) Elsie
NEWS
1) In response to the shootings in El Paso and Dayton
2) Director of Ministry writes to pastors following shootings
3) Touched and challenged: Reflections from a trip to Haiti
PERSONNEL
4) Nate Inglis resigns from Bethany Seminary
5) Brethren bits
NEWS
1) Global Mission visit to Nigeria strengthens relationships, finds hope in EYN’s continuing ministry despite crisis
2) Paradise Church of the Brethren lost in fire
3) Children’s Disaster Services continues Camp Fire response
4) Yearbook Office announces changes for collecting congregational information
UPCOMING EVENTS
5) Children’s Disaster Services offers volunteer training workshops in early 2019
RESOURCES
6) Advent resources are available from Brethren Press
7) Brethren bits
A series of volunteer training workshops will be offered by Children’s Disaster Services (CDS) in early 2019. Cost to attend one of these workshops, where potential volunteers are trained to serve with CDS, is $45 for early registration or $55 for registrations mailed less than three weeks before the event. CDS volunteers receiving retraining pay
The Church of the Brethren 2019 Christian Citizenship Seminar will be held April 27-May 2 in New York and Washington, D.C., with the theme “Creative Solutions to Violent Conflict Worldwide.”
1) ‘We rejoice this Advent season’: Annual Conference moderator sends Christmas letter
2) CDS continues Healing Hearts training in Nigeria
3) Trip to Nigeria connects with peacebuilding efforts, food crisis needs
4) Brethren bits
NEWS
1) Creation Care Study Committee invites responses to survey
2) World Council of Churches issues statement on climate justice
3) Bethany is among ‘Seminaries That Change the World’
4) Multicultural tour to the Holy Land is a success
PERSONNEL
5) National Youth Cabinet is named for 2017-18
6) Bethany Seminary fills positions in admissions and student services
RESOURCES
7) ‘Art for Nigeria’: Nigeria has given me much, I hope to give some back
8) Brethren bits
NEWS
1) Annual Conference moderator shares Bible study for December
2) EDF grants are directed to aid refugees from Syria, Burundi
3) Global Food Initiative supports agricultural work in Haiti, garden projects in US
4) Brethren complete Nigeria workcamp
5) Interfaith vigil at University of La Verne responds to hate letter
RESOURCES
6) Brethren Press carries new study resources for Advent, Winter quarter
7) Brethren bits
NEWS
1) Christ the King Sunday letter calls the denomination to renewed discipleship
2) Leadership Team and CODE leaders express thanks for prayer support
3) Workcamp constructs church for displaced Nigerians
4) Office of Public Witness sponsors congressional briefing on Nigeria
5) EYN president urges churches to be strong in faith with endurance
6) On Earth Peace board holds fall meeting
UPCOMING EVENTS
7) Webinars to focus on urban and church planting ministries
RESOURCES
8) ‘The Disturbances’ tells of Christians saving lives during 1966 genocide in Nigeria
9) Brethren bits
NEWS
1) Grants support disaster rebuilding following flooding in Michigan and S. Carolina
PERSONNEL
2) Julie M. Hostetter to retire from leadership of the Brethren Academy
3) Introducing the 2017 Young Adult Steering Committee
REFLECTION
4) The Challenge of Abundance: Moderator’s reflection for November 2016
5) Brethren bits