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Children’s activities. Photo by Laura Brown<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

2,155<\/strong>: Total registration number for the 2019 Annual Conference including 677 delegates and 1,478 nondelegates.<\/p>\n

$50,928.49<\/strong>: Worship offerings. Each evening worship service and the Sunday morning service received an offering dedicated to a particular purpose. This total includes:<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 — $13,212.01 for Brethren Disaster Ministries work in Puerto Rico<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 — $11,383.41 for the Church of the Brethren core ministries<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 — $11,152.16 for church rebuilding in Nigeria in a collaboration between the Church of the Brethren’s Global Mission and Service and Ekklesiyar Yan’uwa a Nigeria (EYN, the Church of the Brethren in Nigeria)<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 — $8,171.35 for child care and age activities expenses at Annual Conference<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 — $7,009.56 for Calling the Called workshops in the Church of the Brethren districts, sponsored by the Office of Ministry<\/p>\n

$2,360<\/strong>: The online donations and offerings received via\u00a0www.brethren.org<\/a>\u00a0related to the 2019 Annual Conference. The 30 online gifts included $900 in general donations for Annual Conference, $940 to support webcasts of the Conference, $150 for the Nigeria Crisis Response, $150 for Brethren Disaster Ministries work in Puerto Rico, $200 for Church of the Brethren core ministries, $100 for the work of Global Mission and Service, and $70 for the work of the Office of Peacebuilding and Policy in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n

$7, 595<\/strong>: Amount raised for hunger relief by the Association for the Arts Quilt Auction.<\/p>\n

$1,312<\/strong>: Amount received in an offering for ministers\u2019 assistance during the pre-Conference Minister\u2019s Association event. At least 132 people participated in the event led by Dr. David Olson on the theme, \u201cSaying No to Say Yes: Everyday Boundaries and Pastoral Excellence.\u201d<\/p>\n

$2,500<\/strong>: Donation from the conference center in Grand Rapids to purchase free ice cream bars for this year\u2019s Conference goers, as a gesture of thanks to the Annual Conference for returning to their city again in 2020.<\/p>\n

165<\/strong>: Pints collected by the Annual Conference Blood Drive in onsite donations.<\/p>\n

35<\/strong>: Years of service by Joyce Person as teller coordinator and lead teller for Annual Conference, recognized during the first morning\u2019s business session.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A review of some of the numbers and statistics that describe the 2019 annual meeting of the Church of the Brethren.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":14175,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1258,1558],"wf_post_folders":[],"class_list":["post-14199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-annual-conference","tag-annual-conference-2019"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14200,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14199\/revisions\/14200"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14199"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=14199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}