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Date: May 26, 2005
Contact: Cheryl Brumbaugh-Cayford
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CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN	NEWSLINE
May 26, 2005

DISASTER CHILD CARE TRAINS PROJECT MANAGERS,  CRITICAL RESPONSE
VOLUNTEERS

May 26, 2005 (Elgin, IL) -- A Disaster	Child Care (DCC) Level II
Leadership Seminar was held at the New Windsor	(Md.) Conference
Center of the Church of the Brethren on April 25-27. A DCC  Critical
Response Child Care (CRC) orientation was held at the Red  Cross
chapter in Little Rock, Ark., on May 2. DCC is a program of  the
Church of the Brethren General Board.

Potential and experienced  disaster project managers and a selected
group of CRC team administrators  were involved in the leadership
seminar. Leadership was provided by staff  Helen Stonesifer and Roy
Winter, and several experienced project managers.  "This event was
a huge success," Stonesifer reported. Thirty-one  volunteers
participated from across the country. A highlight of the  training
was a tour of the American Red Cross National Headquarters  in
Washington, D.C. 

The CRC orientation was led by Stonesifer and  Jean Myers. Following
the orientation, volunteers participated in a four-day	American Red
Cross Critical Response Team training at the Clara Barton  Center
for Domestic Preparedness in Pine Bluff, Ark. 

"At the  completion of this training, all DCC CRC team members will
have been prepared  to become part of the American Red Cross
Critical Response Team which  responds to aviation incidents and/or
mass casualty disasters," Stonesifer  said.

For more information about DCC	see
www.brethren.org/genbd/ersm/dcc.htm.

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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