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Date: Sept. 15,  2005
Contact: Cheryl  Brumbaugh-Cayford
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CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN NEWSLINE
Sept. 15, 2005
 
BRETHREN VOLUNTEER SERVICE WORKERS PLACED, NEW VOLUNTEER TRAINING UNIT 
BEGINS
 
Sept. 15, 2005 (Elgin, IL) -- The Brethren Volunteer Service (BVS) summer  
unit 265 completed training Aug. 12 at the Brethren Service Center in New  
Windsor, Md. BVS also has announced the start of its fall orientation unit,
to  be 
held Sept. 25-Oct. 14 in New Windsor. BVS is a ministry of the Church of the 

Brethren.
 
Congregations or hometowns and places of service for the volunteers in unit  
265 follow:
 
Samuel Baiduc, Wienhaunsen, Germany, to Camp Ithiel, Gotha, Fla.; 
 
Nikki D'Adamo, Mechanicsville, Va., to the Junction, Northern Ireland; 
 
Jodi Eller, a Church of the Brethren member from Merritt Island, Fla., to  
Kilcranny House, Northern Ireland; 
 
Dean Feasenhiser, Fruitland (Idaho) Church of the Brethren, to the Brethren  
Historical Library and Archives, Elgin, Ill.; 
 
Todd Flory, McPherson (Kan.) Church of the Brethren, to the Brethren  
Witness/Washington Office, Washington D.C.; 
 
Stephanie Grossnickle, Frederick (Md.) Church of the Brethren, to the  
Catholic Worker House, San Antonio, Texas; 
 
Christian Harr, Michelbach, Germany, to the Catholic Worker House, San	
Antonio, Texas;
 
Alexander Kruger, Speyer, Germany, to Tri-City Homeless Coalition, Fremont,  
Calif.; 
 
Rachel Long, Woodinville, Wash., to Women in Black, Serbia/Yugoslavia; 
 
Kyle McCord, Panther Creek Church of the Brethren, Adel, Iowa, to the  
Northern Ohio District of the Church of the Brethren, Ashland, Ohio; 
 
Monica Rice, Akron (Ohio) Springfield Church of the Brethren, to the Youth  
and Young Adult Office of the Church of the Brethren, Elgin, Ill.; 
 
Julia Rosenblau, Eppelboru, Germany, to Su Casa Catholic Worker House,	
Chicago, Ill,; 
 
Ferne Steckman, Palmyra (Pa.) Church of the Brethren, to SERRV	International

at the Brethren Service Center, New Windsor, Md.; 
 
Emily Tyler, McPherson (Kan.) Church of the Brethren, to the Youth and	Young

Adult Office of the Church of the Brethren;
 
Sanju Walker, Waukegan, Ill., to La Puente Home, Alamosa, Colo.; 
 
Stuart Wood, Beaver Creek Church of the Brethren, Bridgewater, Va., to	
Virginians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty.
 
The fall training will gather 26 volunteers from the US and Germany, with  
Church of the Brethren members making up most of the group. The training will
 
include a weekend immersion at an inner-city Baltimore homeless shelter.
While  
there, the group will work at soup kitchens and Habitat for Humanity. 
Volunteers  also will have a chance to work at the clothing warehouse and at
SERRV  
facilities at the Brethren Service Center. Another day of service will be
spent 
 meeting needs of members of the local community around the center.
 
A BVS potluck is open to all those who are interested on Oct. 3 at 6:30  p.m.

at Union Bridge (Md.) Church of the Brethren. "Please feel free to come and  
welcome the new BVS volunteers and to share your own experiences about 
Brethren  Volunteer Service," said Sam Bowman of the BVS office. "As always
your 
prayer	support is welcome and needed. Please pray for the unit, and the
people 
they  will touch during their year of service."
 
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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