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Church of the Brethren Newsline
\nAugust\u00a025,\u00a02018<\/b><\/p>\n

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Children’s Disaster Servicese volunteer Kat Leibbrant supervises a pickup soccer game in McAllen, Texas. Courtesy of Children’s Disaster Services.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cNo good thing does the LORD withhold from those who walk uprightly.\u201d (Psalm 84:11b, NRSV)<\/em><\/p>\n

NEWS<\/p>\n

1)\u00a0Sixth Brethren World Assembly examines \u2018Crosscurrents\u2019 of Brethren movement<\/a><\/p>\n

2)\u00a0Emergency Disaster Fund grants aid children in border region, Middle East<\/a><\/p>\n

3)\u00a0District conversations begin as part of Compelling Vision process<\/a><\/p>\n

4)\u00a0Foods Resource Bank announces new name, leadership<\/a><\/p>\n

5)\u00a0Elizabethtown requests Atlantic Northeast District withdraw \u201cSame-Gender Marriage\u201d proposal<\/a><\/p>\n

REFLECTIONS<\/p>\n

6)\u00a0Returning to a wounded but healing Nigeria<\/a><\/p>\n

7)\u00a0Brethren bits:<\/a>\u00a0Remembering Sue Cushen Snyder, job openings, Dunker Church service, district events, Brethren college news, anniversaries, immigration statement, safe church grants, and more.<\/p>\n

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Quote of the week:<\/h4>\n

\u201cMeekness isn\u2019t weakness. \u2026 If you build on the kingdom of the world you will build on sand.\u201d<\/em>
\n\u2014Glen Landes of the Old German Baptist Brethren Church, New Conference, speaking at the Sixth Brethren World Assembly.<\/p>\n

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<\/a>1) Sixth Brethren World Assembly examines \u2018Crosscurrents\u2019 of Brethren movement<\/h4>\n

By Frank Ramirez<\/p>\n

\u201cThey had never seen something like this, returning good for evil.\u201d<\/p>\n

The speaker was the Rev. Dr. Musa Mambula, a leader in the Ekklesiyar Yan\u2019uwa a Nigeria (EYN, the Church of the Brethren in Nigeria) and current international scholar in residence at Bethany Theological Seminary. He was describing the reaction of three Muslim clerics after the Brethren rebuilt a mosque burned down by Boko Haram.<\/p>\n

Mambula\u2019s remarks came at the Sixth Brethren World Assembly, held Aug. 9-12 at Winona Lake (Ind.) Grace Brethren Church. It was sponsored by the Brethren Encyclopedia Foundation with the theme \u201cBrethren Intersections: History, Identity, Crosscurrents.\u201d<\/p>\n