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NEWS<\/strong><\/p>\n 1) Celebrating Peace Day as part of the Pilgrimage of Justice and Peace UPCOMING EVENTS<\/strong><\/p>\n 5) Workcamp Ministry announces staffing, theme for summer 2017 events<\/p>\n 6) Brethren bits: Remembrance, fourth annual meeting for Spanish Brethren, deadline for Brethren Press \u201cearly bird\u201d offers, Carlisle Truck Stop Ministry announces chaplains, Hispanic leadership conference, \u201c12 Baskets\u201d performances in October, Virlina\u2019s flood offering, more<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Quote of the week:<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cIn a world that is less and less secure and faced with more and more tensions between big powers, nuclear disarmament remains the number one unfinished business. The recent nuclear tests by DPRK [North Korea] should be a warning signal. We all agree that the humanitarian consequences of the explosion of nuclear weapons would be unacceptable, and therefore we have to finally get rid of all these nuclear weapons. Experience shows that the first step to eliminate weapons of mass destruction is to prohibit them through legally binding norms. Together with other member states, Austria will table a draft resolution to convene negotiations on a legally binding comprehensive instrument to prohibit nuclear weapons in 2017.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n — From a statement by Austria\u2019s foreign minister. According to a release from ICAN, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, which has been shared by staff of the World Council of Churches, the decision by Austria follows on \u201ca landmark recommendation last month by a UN working group in Geneva for the General Assembly to convene a conference in 2017 to negotiate \u2018a legally binding instrument to prohibit nuclear weapons, leading towards their total elimination.\u2019 The Austrian-sponsored resolution would take forward this recommendation by establishing a formal mandate for negotiations.\u201d The deadline for Austria to \u201ctable\u201d the resolution in the UN General Assembly\u2019s First Committee, which deals with disarmament matters, is Oct. 13. See www.icanw.org\/campaign-news\/austria-announces-un-resolution-to-prohibit-nuclear-weapons-in-2017<\/a> .<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n By Bryan Hanger, from the WCC Pilgrimage Blog<\/em><\/p>\n When we began planning for this year\u2019s Peace Day, I started to think about the many different visions of peace in the Bible and from the Church of the Brethren tradition. Peace Day has been a ministry of On Earth Peace since 2007 and an international event since the UN resolution in 1981. But this year we really wanted to connect our visions and dreams of peace with what we hoped for the church and the world.<\/p>\n There was so much pain happening with war in Syria, terror against our Nigerian sister church, and racist violence perpetrated against Black Americans. It felt overwhelming, but as a people committed to the Gospel of Peace, we could not simply become apathetic.<\/p>\n This led me to ask, \u201cHow am I called to build peace?\u201d I can\u2019t end the Syrian war, but I can contribute something to the building of God\u2019s peaceable kingdom.<\/p>\n My contribution will make a difference and would be building upon the foundation laid by Jesus and our foremothers of faith. This became the theme for our 2016 campaign.<\/p>\n God\u2019s call to build peace and create just communities always has been key to our story of faith. Abraham was called in his old age to leave home and become the father of many nations, Moses was called to lead his people out of slavery and into freedom, Esther was called to redeem her people from oppression, Mary was called to bear and raise the Redeemer of the world, and Jesus himself was called to bring good news to the poor, proclaim release to the captives, recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free, and to proclaim the year of the Lord\u2019s favor.<\/p>\n Like our spiritual forebears, we are all called to different places and to different ministries to do God\u2019s work and to bring God\u2019s peace and justice to the world. We are all part of the Pilgrimage of Justice and Peace that the World Council of Churches has invited us on–and Peace Day is part and parcel of this same vision.<\/p>\n Both Peace Day and the Pilgrimage of Justice and Peace are about bringing people together to learn from one another, walk together, and dream about a common future where God\u2019s peace and justice shape the world.<\/p>\n So far, 75 different communities have shared their unique 2016 Peace Day plans with us. Most are Church of the Brethren congregations here in the United States, but we also are connected to groups in Cameroon, Nigeria, India, Mexico, Brazil, Northern Ireland, and Canada. Our peace pilgrimage is truly interconnected and worldwide.<\/p>\n Many events are worship services focused on issues of peace and justice, but creativity abounds. One group is having a meditation for racial peace on a college campus, another congregation is de-constructing weapons and re-forming the raw materials into gardening tools, while others are having community interfaith events seeking to bring together those who have been divided historically.<\/p>\n Peace Day itself is not the culmination. We hope that Peace Day inspires people to reflect deeply on the question, \u201cHow am I called to build peace?\u201d and to seek out concrete ways to build upon Peace Day, step out in faith, and join the Pilgrimage of Justice and Peace.<\/p>\n Peace is not a destination, but a lifelong pilgrimage, where we journey together towards a future where God\u2019s peace and justice shape the world.<\/p>\n Learn more about On Earth Peace\u2019s Peace Day organizing ministry at http:\/\/peacedaypray.tumblr.com<\/a> . Learn more about On Earth Peace at http:\/\/onearthpeace.org<\/a> .<\/p>\n — Bryan Hanger is serving as the Peace Day 2016 organizer for On Earth Peace. He is a student at Bethany Theological Seminary in Richmond, Ind. This blogpost was published by the World Council of Churches on the WCC Pilgrimage Blog.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n 2) Religious leaders of many faiths talk peace in Assisi<\/strong><\/p>\n Muslim, Jewish, Hindu, Christian, and Buddhist religious leaders met this week in Assisi, Italy, to discuss peace, while across the ocean in New York City global political leaders assembled at the United Nations also focused on a troubled world.<\/p>\n The Sept. 18-20 interreligious conference in Italy organized by the Community of Sant\u2019 Egidio was titled \u201cThirst for Peace: Faiths and Cultures in Dialogue\u201d and drew some 450 religious leaders. Among participants were the general secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC) Olav Fykse Tveit and other leaders of the ecumenical movement, such as the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, Bartholomew; the WCC president for Europe, Archbishop Emeritus Anders Wejryd; and the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby.<\/p>\n Pope Francis participated in the closing ceremony of the World Day of Prayer for Peace in Assisi on the afternoon of Sept. 20. Quoting Matthew 5:9, \u201cBlessed are the peacemakers,\u201d Francis said, \u201cWe thirst for peace. We desire to witness to peace. And above all, we need to pray for peace, because peace is God\u2019s gift, and it lies with us to plead for it, embrace it, and build it every day with God\u2019s help.\u201d<\/p>\n He said, \u201cOur religious traditions are diverse. But our differences are not the cause of conflict and provocation, or a cold distance between us. We have not prayed against one another today, as has unfortunately sometimes occurred in history.\u201d<\/p>\n Continuing his remarks, the Pope said, \u201cPeace means welcome, openness to dialogue, the overcoming of closed-mindedness, which is not a strategy for safety, but rather a bridge over an empty space. Peace means cooperation, a concrete and active exchange with another, who is a gift and not a problem, a brother or sister with whom to build a better world.\u201d<\/p>\n The roots of religious extremism<\/strong><\/p>\n Before a full conference hall, Tveit led a panel on terrorism and religious extremism, entitled \u201cTerrorism–A Denial of God.\u201d \u201cNo one can claim the name of God to use terror or violence,\u201d said Tveit. \u201cTerror is a blasphemy against God our creator, who created all of us equally in the image of God. Terror is sin against other human beings, against the sanctity of life, and therefore against God.<\/p>\n Tveit noted that, \u201cThe ideology underlying those attacks is a mixture of political, cultural and surely religious justifications of violence. A key factor is the denial of the humanness of the \u2018others\u2019 that become the target.<\/p>\n \u201cTerror is not a matter of figures or pictures from somewhere, it is about us as human beings. We can all become the victims of terror,\u201d he said, telling of how he himself escaped the terror attack in Bologna on Aug. 2, 1980, and how he later was reminded of it when reading the list of names in the new Bologna station years later. \u201cI could not answer the question why I should live and not the others on that list. I could only answer the question: \u2018What do I then do?\u2019 My answer was to study to become a pastor, to use my life in the service for God and all humanity, sharing the Gospel, working for justice and peace.\u201d<\/p>\n In terrorism, Tveit noted, \u201cThe transcendent, transformative, and holistic dimensions of religion are reduced to a totalitarian ideology that justifies and imposes itself in destructive ways and does not accept any responsibility for life-giving relationships beyond their own group and even within their own group as a collective entity.\u201d<\/p>\n But religions themselves are part of the problem, he insisted. \u201cWe should be critical and self-critical. There must be space for self-critique and repentance, for constructive imagination that opens doors for healing and reconciliation and the life-giving presence of God who renews all life.\u201d He ended by quoting Psalm 118:17: \u201cI shall not die, but I shall live, and recount the deeds of the Lord.\u201d<\/p>\n Tveit also participated in a panel on economic inequality, reflecting on how the increasing gap in income and wealth is at the heart of many problems in the world. Christians must \u201cmind the gap,\u201d he said. Tveit referred to how faith in the one God, creator of all, based on the biblical witness, compels us to work toward a fair distribution of resources. The covenant and the Decalogue (Exodus 20-23) focused on that, he said, as did the teaching of Jesus. We pray for our need, not our greed.<\/p>\n The full conference program included presentations from Nobel laureates Jody Williams of the USA and Tawakkol Karman of Yemen, along with a lunch with Syrian refugees.<\/p>\n An ecumenism of mercy<\/strong><\/p>\n At a homily during a Mass on the final day of the conference, Pope Francis said, \u201cOur heart is the heart of a man or woman of peace. And beyond the divisions of religions: everyone, everyone, everyone! Because we are all children of God. And God is the God of peace. There is no god of war. He who makes war is evil; it is the devil who wants to kill everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n Connecting the ecumenical quest for unity to the search for peace, Archbishop Wejryd spoke on \u201cChristian Unity: Ecumenism of Mercy,\u201d noting that Christians today can readily engage in mission together, \u201cnot least in these areas of the world we used to call Christendom.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe, as humans, are sent to each other with individual deeds and a responsibility to build better structures, and we are sent to bring the biblical narrative that changed and changes the world.\u201d<\/p>\n Wejryd said Ephesians 4 speaks of unity already a reality due to one Father and one baptism. \u201cAnd none of us Christians should be comfortable until we can honestly and wholeheartedly celebrate together and share the Eucharist.\u201d<\/p>\n Preconditions of peace<\/strong><\/p>\n In his remarks, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew said peace \u201cneeds a few cornerstones to uphold it even when it is endangered.\u201d He said, \u201cThere can be no peace without mutual respect and acknowledgment…. There can be no peace without justice; there can be no peace without fruitful cooperation among all the peoples in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n Bartholomew said humanity needs to be able reflect on where it goes wrong or where it has not taken care, \u201cbecause fundamentalisms have risen, threatening not only dialogue with others, but even dialogue within our own selves, our very own consciences.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have to be able to isolate them, to purify them, in the light of our faiths, to transform them into richness for all,\u201d he said, Vatican Radio reported.<\/p>\n Bartholomew was granted an honorary doctorate in international relations by the University for Foreigners of Perugia during the conference.<\/p>\n Anglican Archbishop Justin Welby reflected in an ecumenical prayer ceremony on the misconception in today\u2019s world that money makes one rich. \u201cWe think ourselves rich,\u201d he said, \u201cOur money and wealth is like the toy money in a children\u2019s game: it may buy goods in our human economies which seem so powerful, but in the economy of God it is worthless. We are only truly rich when we accept mercy from God, through Christ our Savior.\u201d<\/p>\n The conference marked the 30th anniversary of the first interfaith \u201cWorld Day of Prayer for Peace\u201d held in Assisi first under then-Pope John Paul II, who has since been elevated to sainthood by the Roman Catholic Church. Assisi was the home of St Francis, in whose honor the current pope chose his papal name.<\/p>\n — The World Council of Churches provided this report. The Church of the Brethren is a founding member of the council. Find out more about the ministries of the WCC at www.oikoumene.org\/en<\/a> .<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n 3) Nigerian Brethren welcome Church of the Brethren executive staff, continue relief efforts<\/strong><\/p>\n With contributions from Zakariya Musa<\/em><\/p>\n Ekklesiyar Yan\u2019uwa a Nigeria (EYN, the Church of the Brethren in Nigeria) has welcomed a visit from Global Mission and Service executive staff Jay Wittmeyer and Roy Winter, who also heads up Brethren Disaster Ministries. The two church staff from the US have been meeting with Nigerian church leaders including EYN president Joel S. Billi and leaders of EYN\u2019s Disaster Relief Ministry, as well as other groups.<\/p>\n Their visit coincides with a continuing \u201cSympathy, Conciliation, and Encouragement\u201d tour by the EYN leadership. The tour recently was in Nigeria\u2019s capital city Abuja, where they met with church members and some of the displaced Nigerians living in IDP camps in and around the Abuja area.<\/p>\n Continuing disaster relief<\/strong><\/p>\n The next tour stop was to be Benin City, where EYN leaders planned to visit schools for orphans where many of the orphaned children from EYN families are receiving assistance.<\/p>\n EYN\u2019s Disaster Relief Ministry also continues to distribute food on a regular basis. During his visit in Nigeria, Winter planned to hold a workshop for EYN leaders involved in such humanitarian efforts.<\/p>\n A recent distribution of food at Damaturu, the capital of Yobe State, served 200 people. Each household went home with 50 kilograms of rice, 2 liters of cooking oil, 2 packets of salt, and 2 packets of Maggi Cubes [a popular soup base in Nigeria]. Although EYN\u2019s DCC Yobe [the church district in the area] includes some far distant congregations, they were able to come for the food distribution. Also offered was free medical care–the EYN Medical Coordinator was there for two days of health delivery.<\/p>\n Recently EYN presented 30 goats to 10 Rural Development workers at its Headquarters at Kwarhi, Adamawa State. James T. Mamza, director of the Integrated Community Development Program, and Yakubu Peter, deputy director of EYN\u2019s Agricultural Department, addressed the beneficiaries about the development that the project is aimed at, to help farmers to improve the varieties of goats by feeding on Crotaria juncea grass. This is coming as a result of the workshop by Education Concern for Hunger Organization (ECHO), sponsored by the Church of the Brethren early this year and held in Ibadan, Nigeria.<\/p>\n The beneficiaries are staff who attended the workshop, and were provided with building materials for the enclosures in which they will keep the animals. The beneficiaries are expected to breed more animals, and will be asked to share them in their communities. Around the compound at Kwarhi, they have planted the Crotaria juncea seedlings that will be given to the goats. The grass is provided through the work of Jeff Boshart, manager of the Church of the Brethren\u2019s Global Food Initiative (formerly Global Food Crisis Fund).<\/p>\n EYN celebrates new congregations<\/strong><\/p>\n EYN leaders are continuing to celebrate the \u201cchurch autonomy\u201d of new congregations and grant them official status. Another scheduled stop on their tour is Lagos, where the Lekki congregation will be granted church autonomy.<\/p>\n During a recent granting of church autonomy to the Tongo congregation, a traditional ruler in the area–His Royal Highness Umaru Adamu Sanda, Gangwarin Ganye–attended and expressed appreciation to the church leaders for coming to his domain. The Tongo church is the third to gain autonomy under the leadership of EYN president Joel S. Billi.<\/p>\n District Head of Kiri, Alhaji Musa Gindaw, also graced the occasion despite the fact that he is not a Christian, said an EYN report. He urged the church leaders to establish the EYN church in his domain and assured his support whenever needed, without discrimination. The EYN president in response thanked the traditional rulers and offered them prayers for God\u2019s protection over their territory, families, and for the entire nation.<\/p>\n Evangelist Joseph B. Adamu was praised for being a pioneer of the new congregation, which has 150 members.<\/p>\n — The information for this report is taken from releases by Zakariya Musa, head of media and a project officer for the disaster ministry of Ekklesiyar Yan\u2019uwa a Nigeria (EYN, the Church of the Brethren in Nigeria).<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n 4) Manchester University Intercultural Center will be named for Jean Childs Young<\/strong><\/p>\n By Dave McFadden<\/em><\/p>\n Manchester University\u2019s future Intercultural Center at College Avenue and East Street [in North Manchester, Ind.] will be named in memory of alumna educator and activist Jean Childs (\u201954) Young.<\/p>\n Jean\u2019s life reflected brightly on our mission to respect the infinite worth of every individual and improve the human condition. A child of the segregated South and a partner in the civil rights movement, Jean\u2019s work dispelled stereotypes and fostered understanding. She built relationships and bridged divides. I can think of no better namesake for our Intercultural Center, a symbol of Manchester University\u2019s commitment to learning from differences.<\/p>\n Recently, Jean\u2019s husband, Andrew Young, sent me a copy of his book, \u201cAn Easy Burden: The Civil Rights Movement and the Transformation of America.\u201d In it, he wrote: \u201cMuch of this story is a result of Jean\u2019s study at Manchester. I doubt that it could have happened if I\u2019d married anyone else. Peace and blessings, Andrew Young.\u201d<\/p>\n The note is an amazing testimony to the power of relationships and the ripples of everyday work. Andrew visited Jean here when she was a student. He served in Brethren Volunteer Service and attended a meeting at Camp Mack. \u201cThe Church of the Brethren in many respects is my spiritual home,\u201d he once wrote. It was in his experiences with the Brethren \u201cthat my ministry, my sense of direction, indeed my personality and character were shaped.\u201d*<\/p>\n Jean Childs followed two older sisters to Manchester and earned a degree in elementary education. Weeks after graduating, she married Andrew, who would remain at the side of his close friend Martin Luther King, Jr. throughout the civil rights movement. Later, Andrew became a US congressman, ambassador to the United Nations, and mayor of Atlanta.<\/p>\n Jean had a distinguished career as a teacher and an advocate for human rights and children\u2019s welfare. In 1977, President Carter appointed her chair of the US Commission of the International Year of the Child. She also established the Atlanta Task Force on Education, served as co-founder of the Atlanta-Fulton Commission on Children and Youth, and helped develop Atlanta Junior College.<\/p>\n She served Manchester as a trustee from 1975 to 1979 and received an honorary doctorate from MU in 1980. She died of liver cancer in 1994 at the age of 61.<\/p>\n At the site of the future Jean Childs Young Intercultural Center, our university family is dedicating a Peace Pole in memory of three international students killed last winter in a traffic accident. Nerad Mangai, Brook \u201cBK\u201d Dagnew, and Kirubel Hailu wove themselves into the fabric and hearts of our community in the short time they were with us. We miss them.<\/p>\n The pole will remain at the site until construction begins on the new building early next year. That facility will include a permanent memorial to our three young friends and, when the building is finished, we will reinstall the Peace Pole permanently.<\/p>\n As you may recall, the Young Intercultural Center traces its roots to AAFRO House, established in the early 1970s. Over the years, its scope expanded as a home to MU\u2019s Office of Multicultural Affairs (OMA), Black Student Union, African Student Association, and Hispanos Unidos. The center also is a home away from home for our growing international student population and serves as a gathering space for students of all backgrounds to learn from each other.<\/p>\n The new building will feature a permanent display honoring Jean Young. Plans also call for OMA office space, a lounge area, a multipurpose room for events, open-concept kitchen and dining, and a resource room, library, and computer lab.<\/p>\n If this project–so core to Manchester\u2019s values–inspires you to help, I encourage you to direct your gifts to the Office of University Advancement at 260-982-5412.<\/p>\n * \u201cMessenger,\u201d Oct. 1977, Vol. 126, No. 10.<\/small><\/p>\n — Dave McFadden is president of Manchester University in North Manchester, Ind. Find out more about Manchester University at www.manchester.edu<\/a> .<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n UPCOMING EVENTS<\/strong><\/p>\n 5) Workcamp Ministry announces staffing, theme for summer 2017 events<\/strong><\/p>\n The Workcamp Ministry of the Church of the Brethren has welcomed Shelley Weachter and welcomed back Deanna Beckner as assistant coordinators for the 2017 summer workcamp season. The theme developed by the workcamp team for the 2017 season is \u201cSay Hello,\u201d which is a phrase pulled from 3 John 13-14 in \u201cThe Message\u201d version. The theme will focus on communication with God, each other, and the world.<\/p>\n Beckner and Weachter began their work together on Aug. 22 as volunteers through Brethren Volunteer Service (BVS), working at the denomination\u2019s General Offices in Elgin, Ill. Beckner graduated from Manchester University in 2015 with a degree in Communication Studies and comes from Columbia City (Ind.) Church of the Brethren in Northern Indiana District. Weachter graduated from Bridgewater (Va.) College in May with a degree in Mathematics. She grew up in Manassas (Va.) Church of the Brethren in Mid-Atlantic District.<\/p>\n The workcamp experience next summer will allow for time to focus on a Christ-follower\u2019s role in the world and how to positively and pro-actively interact with those around us. The workcamp team is hard at work scheduling the sites for next summer. The complete schedule will be available online by the beginning of October. Follow the link www.brethren.org\/workcamps<\/a> to stay up to date.<\/p>\n — Shelley Weachter is a Brethren Volunteer Service worker and an assistant coordinator for the Church of the Brethren Workcamp Ministry.<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n 6) Brethren bits<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n2) Religious leaders of many faiths talk peace in Assisi
\n3) Nigerian Brethren welcome Church of the Brethren executive staff, continue relief efforts
\n4) Manchester University Intercultural Center will be named for Jean Childs Young<\/p>\n
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\n<\/strong>1) Celebrating Peace Day as part of the Pilgrimage of Justice and Peace<\/strong><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/11\/bulletin-insert-for-peace-day.jpg\")
Bulletin insert for Peace Day 2016<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/11\/wcc-pilgrimage-logo.png\"){kind=logo}
A release from the World Council of Churches<\/em><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/11\/global-mission-executive.jpg\")
Global Mission executive staff Jay Wittmeyer and Roy Winter have been in Nigeria for meetings with leaders of the Nigerian Brethren, as well as other groups including BEST, and staff of EYN’s disaster response effort.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/11\/district-head-of-kiri-musa.jpg\")
District Head of Kiri, Musa Gindaw (seated at right), meets with EYN leaders<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/11\/jean-childs-young.jpg\")
Jean Childs Young<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/11\/jean-childs-and-andrew-young.jpg\")
Jean Childs and Andrew Young<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/11\/say-hello-is-the-2017-theme.jpg\")
By Shelley Weachter<\/em><\/p>\n
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— Carlisle (Pa.) First Church of the Brethren is hosting a Hispanic leadership conference<\/strong> titled \u201cPara Su Gloria\u201d (Colossians 3:23) on Oct. 22, 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Admission is free and a lunch will be provided, according to an announcement in the Southern Pennsylvania District newsletter which noted that these \u201cFor His Glory\u201d conferences are sponsored by the Renacer Hispanic Ministry of the Church of the Brethren. Spanish\/English translation will be available. Conference topics will include the Hispanic reality affecting America, the Renacer vision, the power of unity, and reaching the Hispanic community.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/11\/sarpiya-receives-jane-addams-peace-award.jpg\")