{"id":20200,"date":"2022-10-13T15:38:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-13T15:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/?p=20200"},"modified":"2022-10-13T20:41:43","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T20:41:43","slug":"mission-and-ministry-board-meets-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2022\/mission-and-ministry-board-meets-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Mission and Ministry Board meets this weekend, agenda focuses on budget"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p>The Church of the Brethren\u2019s Mission and Ministry Board holds its fall meetings this weekend at the denomination\u2019s General Offices in Elgin, Ill. Leading the meeting is chair Carl Fike, assisted by chair-elect Colin Scott and general secretary David Steele.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The meeting schedule begins with new board member orientation on Thursday, Oct. 13; executive committee meeting and the full board meeting in closed session on Friday, Oct. 14; the full board in open session on Saturday, Oct. 15; worship and completion of the open board meeting on the morning of Sunday, Oct. 16.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-background has-small-font-size\" style=\"background-color:#dfe7ec\"><em><strong>Please pray\u2026<\/strong> For the Mission and Ministry Board of the Church of the Brethren, holding fall meetings this weekend at the denomination\u2019s General Offices in Elgin, Ill.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>On the agenda: <\/strong>a financial update for the Church of the Brethren ministries in 2022 and action on a budget proposal for 2023, a work session on Kingian nonviolence as part of the board\u2019s Strategic Plan Foreground Vision Initiative #8, and a board development training led by former Annual Conference moderator Samuel Sarpiya, among other business items, reports, and updates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Find the agenda for this meeting, background documents, and video reports online at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brethren.org\/mmb\/meeting-info\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"www.brethren.org\/mmb\/meeting-info\">www.brethren.org\/mmb\/meeting-info<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2011\u2011\u2011\u2011\u2011\u2011\u2011\u2011\u2011\u2011<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Find more Church of the Brethren news:<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__list wp-block-latest-posts\"><li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/conference-business-for-2026\/\">Conference business includes resolutions on weapons transfer, care for immigrants and refugees, polity adjustments for licensed and commissioned ministers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/essential-services-of-ordinances\/\">Essential services of ordinances now available online as For All Who Minister prepares for reprinting<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/bdm-rebuilding-program-new-focus\/\">Brethren Disaster Ministries Rebuilding Program serves Hurricane Helene and Western Maryland storm survivors<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/shine-free-worship-resource\/\">Shine Everywhere free six-week worship series helps churches nurture faith at home<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/invitations-to-look-up\/\">Feature for Earth Month and Poetry Month: Invitations to look up, to seek abundant life<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of the Brethren\u2019s Mission and Ministry Board holds its fall meetings this weekend at the denomination\u2019s General Offices in Elgin, Ill. 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