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[Church of the Brethren News Services]

Date:      March 20, 1998
Contact:  Nevin Dulabaum
V:  847/742-5100   F:  847/742-6103
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Newsline Index        March 20, 1998

News
1) Hate e-mail is sent to 100 international and minority students at
Manchester College.
2) Association of Brethren Caregivers board to convene this weekend.
3) On Earth Peace Assembly board to convene this weekend.
4) Resources are available for Brethren to respond to the General Board's
Sudan
     initiative.
5) U.S. religious leaders call for the United States Senate to ratify a
nuclear test 
     ban treaty.
6) Emergency Disaster Fund allocates three grants worth $100,000.
7) Emergency Response/Service Ministries ships material aid to
     Haiti; relocates refugees.
8) A study guide for Don Durnbaugh's "Fruit of the Vine" book is now
available.
9) The April Source resource mailing includes a variety of brochures and
reports.
10) An anonymous donor ensures that all current Brethren
     Volunteer Service workers can celebrate BVS' 50th
     anniversary at Annual Conference this summer.
11) The General Board announces two job openings.
12) An administrator for Camp Mardella, Denton, Md., is being sought.
13) The 103rd annual Spiritual Life Institute is held at
     Bridgewater (Va.) College.
14) Ministry of Reconciliation now has a reconciliation-oriented listserv.
15) Elizabethtown (Pa.) College to host a week-long international festival.

Features
16) The Church of the Brethren in Nigeria on Tuesday turned 75.
17) Judy Mills Reimer, newly named as the General Board's executive director 
       designate, shares her thoughts on the General Board and the Church of
the 
       Brethren.