{"id":8832,"date":"2014-07-04T00:00:55","date_gmt":"2014-07-04T00:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.brethren.org\/news\/?p=8832"},"modified":"2018-11-03T20:22:22","modified_gmt":"2018-11-03T20:22:22","slug":"the-day-in-columbus-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2014\/the-day-in-columbus-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"The Day in Columbus \u2013 Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"
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photo by Glenn Riegel<\/small>
Conference director Chris Douglas<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

From Philippians<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWork out your own salvation with fear and trembling; for it is God who is at work in you, enabling you both to will and to work for his good pleasure\u201d (Philippians 2:12b-13).<\/p>\n

Quotable quotes<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cIn addition to now being out of debt, we have now accrued a back up reserve of $350,000. That money is now available to us, for years…when expenses exceed income.\u201d
\n— Conference director Chris Douglas informing the delegate body of the financial health of the Conference<\/em><\/p>\n

By the numbers<\/strong><\/p>\n

2,418 – total registrations including 719 delegates and 1,699 nondelegates<\/p>\n

1,719 – worship attendance on Friday, July 4<\/p>\n

$18,689.68 – offering received for the Core Ministries of the Church of the Brethren<\/p>\n

514 – the number of times the Annual Conference app has been downloaded<\/p>\n

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photo by Randy Miller<\/small>
Dorothy Brandt Davis and Sara Davis with the “Middle Man” book, which was first published by Brethren Press 50 years ago. The illustrated children’s book tells the story of Civil War elder and peace martyr John Kline.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

2014 – the 150th anniversary of the assassination of John Kline, a Brethren Civil War era elder and martyr for peace, and the 50th anniversary of the publication of \u201cMiddle Man,\u201d the beloved Brethren Press children\u2019s story about Kline by Dorothy Brandt Davis and her children<\/p>\n

BVS award<\/strong><\/p>\n

Brethren Volunteer Service (BVS) held its annual luncheon today, recognizing volunteers and giving its Partners in Service Award. This year the award went to Manchester University campus minister Walt Wiltschek, who also gave the presentation for the luncheon on the topic, \u201cWorth Remembering.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Annual Conference News Team includes photographers Glenn Riegel, Regina Holmes, Keith Hollenberg, Justin Hollenberg, Alysson Wittmeyer; writers Frank Ramirez, Frances Townsend, Karen Garrett, Eddie Edmonds, Britnee Harbaugh; web staff Jan Fischer Bachman, Don Knieriem, Russ Otto; communications staff Wendy McFadden, publisher of Brethren Press, Mandy Garcia of donor communications, Messenger editor Randy Miller, and Cheryl Brumbaugh-Cayford, director of News Services, who serves as editor.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From Philippians \u201cWork out your own salvation with fear and trembling; for it is God who is at work in you, enabling you both to will and to work for his good pleasure\u201d (Philippians 2:12b-13). Quotable quotes \u201cIn addition to now being out of debt, we have now accrued a back up reserve of $350,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"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],"wf_post_folders":[],"class_list":["post-8832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-annual-conference"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8832","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8835,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8832\/revisions\/8835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8832"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=8832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}