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Date: May 2, 2005
Contact: Cheryl Brumbaugh-Cayford
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CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN	NEWSLINE
May 2, 2005

CONFERENCE BRINGS 85 YOUTH AND ADVISORS TO  MANCHESTER COLLEGE

May 2, 2005 (Elgin, IL) -- Eighty-five senior high  youth and
advisors met on the campus of Manchester College in  North
Manchester, Ind., April 16-17 for the Midwest Regional	Youth
Conference of the Church of the Brethren.

On Earth Peace staff  member Matt Guynn served as keynote speaker
for the weekend, leading three	sessions on the national youth
theme, "Seeing God." Joseph Helfrich and Brett	Clark provided music
leadership.

Guynn focused on ways one moves from  blindness to sight, handing
out symbolic blindfolds that youth carried with  them during the
conference. "What are those forms of blindness you're ready  to
release so that you can see God more clearly?" Guynn asked the
group.	He also wrote an upbeat chorus used in a moving evening
worship: "No longer  blind, let me see, Christ in you, Christ in
me."

Participants could  choose from a variety of workshops Saturday
afternoon, followed by time to	enjoy campus "Peace Week" activities
or other recreation options. Several  members of the band Mutual
Kumquat gave a concert Saturday night.

The  Church of the Brethren is a Christian denomination committed to
continuing  the work of Jesus peacefully and simply, and to living
out its faith in  community. The denomination is based in the
Anabaptist and Pietist faith  traditions and is one of the three
Historic Peace Churches. It celebrates its  300th anniversary in
2008. It counts about 130,000 members across the United  States and
Puerto Rico, and has missions and sister churches in Brazil,  the
Dominican Republic, Haiti, and Nigeria.

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For more  information contact:

Cheryl Brumbaugh-Cayford
Director of News  Services
Church of the Brethren General Board
1451 Dundee Ave.
Elgin,	IL 60120
847-742-5100 ext.  260
cbrumbaugh-cayford_gb@brethren.org

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