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Date: Sept. 2, 2005
Contact: Cheryl Brumbaugh-Cayford
V: 847/742-5100  F: 847/742-6103
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CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN NEWSLINE
Sept. 2, 2005
 
Manchester College offers to take students from disaster areas
 
Sept. 2, 2005 (Elgin, IL) --  Manchester College in North Manchester,  Ind., 
is offering to enroll students whose colleges or universities are closed  
because of Hurricane Katrina, among many other colleges and universities
across	
the country making similar offers. Manchester College is affiliated with the 

Church of the Brethren.
 
In addition, the college community is uniting to raise funds and donate  
blood for the victims of the disaster, and is inviting its neighbors to join
the  
relief effort.
 
Manchester will speed financial aid packaging and course registration, and  
waive application and late-registration fees to the transfer students, said  
David F. McFadden, executive vice president. The offer is extended to
students  
already admitted or enrolled in four-year baccalaureate colleges or 
universities  closed by the hurricane and resulting flooding. 
 
Meanwhile, Manchester is collecting monetary donations in collaboration  with

the Church of the Brethren and Church World Service, and is working with  the

Red Cross to conduct a special
blood drive. For more see _www.manchester.edu_ (http://www.manchester.edu) .
 
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_ 
(mailto:cbrumbaugh-cayford_gb@brethren.org) 
 
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