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Date: Sept. 29, 2005
Contact: Cheryl Brumbaugh-Cayford
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CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN NEWSLINE
Sept. 29, 2005
 
Disaster Child Care adds new site and new training opportunities
 
Sept. 29, 2005 (Elgin, IL) --  Norfolk, Va., has been added to the  sites 
where Disaster Child Care volunteers are caring for children evacuated	from 
Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. The program also has announced new training  
opportunities. Disaster Child Care is a ministry of the Church of the
Brethren  and 
serves at the request of FEMA and the American Red Cross.
 
Volunteer child-care teams have been working in Lafayette and Shreveport,  
La.; Kingwood, W.Va.; Pensacola and Fort Walton Beach, Fla.; Denver, Colo.;
and  
Los Angeles and San Bernardino, Calif. 
 
The child care team that had begun work at the Cajun Dome in Lafayette	
before Hurricane Rita hit the Gulf Coast, was evacuated to Shreveport along
with  
the evacuees they were serving. The team then set up child care at the Expo  
Center in Shreveport. They and the evacuee group were on their way back to  
Lafayette Sept. 28, to continue offering child care at the Cajun Dome.
 
Disaster Child Care has received so many requests to do additional  
trainings, as a result of Hurricane Katrina, that the program has appointed 
volunteer 
coordinator Wilma Ammermann to handle all the requests. Several  additional 
trainings have been scheduled to enlist new volunteers for a response  that 
spans more states than Disaster Child Care has ever served at any one  time.
 
Two additional Level I training workshops have been confirmed: at La Verne  
(Calif.) Church of the Brethren on Oct. 1-2; and in Norfolk, Neb., on Oct.  
22-23. A registration fee of $45 is being waived because of the emergency
status	
of these trainings. However, the program will be happy to receive any 
donations  toward training costs. See _www.disasterchildcare.org_ 
(http://www.disasterchildcare.org)  for more  information about trainings and
registration.
 
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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