Monday, June 01, 2015

EYN choir tour

Church of the Brethren Newsline - June 10, 2015

Nigerian Brethren teams will be available to visit churches this summer, in addition to the tour by the EYN Women’s Fellowship (ZME) Choir and the BEST group, according to the EYN Planning Committee. The committee is made up of members of three Pennsylvania congregations--Lancaster, Elizabethtown, and Mountville Churches of the Brethren--and is chaired by former Nigeria mission worker Monroe Good.

The committee expects “around 60 sisters and brothers to be part of the EYN 2015 Fraternal Visit to Church of the Brethren churches here in the United States,” Good reported. “Some of them, who are not part of the Women’s Choir, are available to visit congregations in districts outside the choir tour route. They are available from June 27 to July 2.”

Thirty of the guests from Ekklesiyar Yan’uwa a Nigeria (EYN, the Church of the Brethren in Nigeria) are in the women’s choir. Twenty or more additional EYN visitors including members of the Brethren Evangelism Support Trust (BEST), a group of businesspeople and professionals, who will be available for additional visits to churches. The whole group will attend the Church of the Brethren Annual Conference in Tampa, Fla., July 11-15.

EYN team visits

Two-person EYN teams are available to visit congregations and districts to share about the situation of the Nigerian Brethren in the midst of persecution and suffering. The EYN teams will be available to visit from Saturday, June 27, through Thursday, July 2.

On June 27, the Nigerian guests will be in Elgin, Ill., and will leave from there to make any visits as requested. On July 2, all of the EYN teams must be at Washington Dulles Airport no later than 4 p.m. to meet up with the group.

Congregations or districts requesting a visit from an EYN team must pay for that team’s transportation from Elgin, Ill., to the visit location, and back to Washington Dulles Airport, plus any related expenses.

Send requests for an EYN team visit to Monroe Good at 717-341-3314 or ggspinnacle@gmail.com . Requests will be received on a first come, first served basis.

For the choir’s itinerary and more go to: www.brethren.org/news/2015/eyn-teams-availableto-visit.html