DENOMINATIONAL NEWS/NEWSLINE
The Nominating Committee of the Standing Committee of district delegates to the Church of the Brethren Annual Conference has presenting the ballot for the 2025 Conference taking place in Greensboro, N.C., on July 2-6, headed by Dennis Beckner (Columbia City, Ind.) and Glenn Bollinger (Port Republic, Va.) as candidates for moderator-elect. Chris Douglas (Highland Avenue) is on the ballot for the Review and Evaluation Committee. A full listing of candidates and complete biographical information is online at www.brethren.org/ac2025/business/ballot and will be printed in the Conference booklet.
New resources from Brethren Press, the Church of the Brethren publishing house, include the 2025 Lenten devotional titled Take Up Your Cross, written by Tim Harvey; two new Covenant Bible Studies including God’s Earth Our Home, written by David Radcliff, and Sabbath: God’s Call to Peace, written by Angela Finet; and the 2024 edition of the Church of the Brethren Yearbook, offering the latest denominational directory and statistics. Order these and other resources from Brethren Press at www.brethrenpress.com.
Brethren Volunteer Service will be hosting a Zoom information session about BVS on April 15 at 7 p.m. Central. Anyone is welcome to stop by and hear more about BVS from the staff. Register in advance at https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/nZT3YV66T2ibvOlRAhtZrQ. BVS orientation dates for 2025 have been set and applications are open. The application form can be found at www.brethren.org/bvs/volunteer/apply. Orientation dates will be July 27-Aug. 4, summer orientation (Unit 337), at Camp Colorado in Sedalia, Colo. Sept. 10-18, fall orientation (Unit 338), at Camp Mardela in Denton, Md.
Registration for Song and Story Fest 2025 at Camp Brethren Woods in Keezletown, Va., July 6-12, is now available, using this online form. More details about Song and Story Fest can be found here. Online registration and payment are again being offered to help streamline the process. Pay online (additional 3% fee) or send a check to On Earth Peace, after submitting your registration online. Using the online registration form is preferred, but the form can also be printed and mailed if needed.
“Early Anabaptism in Global Perspective: Past, Present, and Future at 500 Years” is the topic for a conference at the Young Center at Elizabethtown (Pa.) College on July 22-24. This conference marking the 500th anniversary of the birth of the Anabaptist movement will revisit early Anabaptism and give special attention to the global context in which it emerged and spread. Speakers will also consider how Anabaptist history has been received by churches and academics in more recent times and in varying contexts around the world. With more than three dozen plenary sessions, papers, seminars, and roundtables by presenters from ten countries, the conference will examine such varied themes as migration, diplomacy, the arts, colonialism, peacemaking, and theological identity. Optional pre- and post-conference field trips will visit area libraries and archives and the 1719 Museum. Find out more and register at www.etown.edu/centers/young-center/anabaptism-conference-2025.aspx.
More than 70 clergywomen from 16 districts (including about half a dozen from Illinois/ Wisconsin) attended the denominational clergywomen’s retreat traditionally offered every five years by the Ministry Office of the Church of the Brethren. The retreat was held Feb. 10-13 at the San Pedro Spiritual Development Center in Winter Park, Fla. Presentations were offered each morning by Meghan Larissa Good, lead pastor of Trinity Mennonite Church in Phoenix, Ariz., and author of Divine Gravity: Sparking a Movement to Recover a Better Christian Story.
New resources from Brethren Press, the Church of the Brethren publishing house, include the 2025 Lenten devotional titled Take Up Your Cross, written by Tim Harvey; two new Covenant Bible Studies including God’s Earth Our Home, written by David Radcliff, and Sabbath: God’s Call to Peace, written by Angela Finet; and the 2024 edition of the Church of the Brethren Yearbook, offering the latest denominational directory and statistics. Order these and other resources from Brethren Press at www.brethrenpress.com.
Brethren Volunteer Service will be hosting a Zoom information session about BVS on April 15 at 7 p.m. Central. Anyone is welcome to stop by and hear more about BVS from the staff. Register in advance at https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/nZT3YV66T2ibvOlRAhtZrQ. BVS orientation dates for 2025 have been set and applications are open. The application form can be found at www.brethren.org/bvs/volunteer/apply. Orientation dates will be July 27-Aug. 4, summer orientation (Unit 337), at Camp Colorado in Sedalia, Colo. Sept. 10-18, fall orientation (Unit 338), at Camp Mardela in Denton, Md.
Registration for Song and Story Fest 2025 at Camp Brethren Woods in Keezletown, Va., July 6-12, is now available, using this online form. More details about Song and Story Fest can be found here. Online registration and payment are again being offered to help streamline the process. Pay online (additional 3% fee) or send a check to On Earth Peace, after submitting your registration online. Using the online registration form is preferred, but the form can also be printed and mailed if needed.
“Early Anabaptism in Global Perspective: Past, Present, and Future at 500 Years” is the topic for a conference at the Young Center at Elizabethtown (Pa.) College on July 22-24. This conference marking the 500th anniversary of the birth of the Anabaptist movement will revisit early Anabaptism and give special attention to the global context in which it emerged and spread. Speakers will also consider how Anabaptist history has been received by churches and academics in more recent times and in varying contexts around the world. With more than three dozen plenary sessions, papers, seminars, and roundtables by presenters from ten countries, the conference will examine such varied themes as migration, diplomacy, the arts, colonialism, peacemaking, and theological identity. Optional pre- and post-conference field trips will visit area libraries and archives and the 1719 Museum. Find out more and register at www.etown.edu/centers/young-center/anabaptism-conference-2025.aspx.
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