Title: AARM changes name, recognizes founding board members. Dec. 7, 2006 Church of the Brethren News Service Cheryl Brumbaugh-Cayford, News Director 800-323-8039 ext. 260 -- cobnews@brethren.org
AARM CHANGES NAME, RECOGNIZES FOUNDING BOARD
MEMBERS
(Dec. 7, 2006) (Elgin, IL) -- At the annual meeting of the Association of Anabaptist Risk Management (AARM) on Oct. 30 at Landis Homes Retirement Community in Lititz, Pa., founding board members Edgar Stoesz and Henry Rosenberger concluded their service with AARM.
Stoesz and Rosenberger helped establish the organization in 1993, which has specialized in providing insurance programs and services to nonprofit Anabaptist organizations. The Association of Brethren Caregivers (ABC) is a member.
"We had hoped to make it to the Promised Land," said Stoesz, referring to hopes that the agency would one day become its own insurance company. "But, like Moses, we will just have to peer in from the other side and let you, the new board members carry us home."
Because of AARM's relationship to the Peace Church Risk Retention Group, the board decided to change the name of the organization to AARM--Insurance Services for Peace Church Organizations.
In 2003 AARM became third-party administrator of a national risk retention group, the Peace Church Risk Retention Group. The group is a member-owned group of Church of the Brethren, Mennonite, and Friends retirement facilities providing liability insurance for its members. The change was made because the organization now not only serves the Anabaptist communities but also Friends, or Quaker, communities as well.
New members elected to the board are Edith Yoder, executive director of Bridge of Hope National, Exton, Pa.; Vernon King, CEO of the Brethren Home Community, New Oxford, Pa.; Brenda Reish, CFO of Bethany Theological Seminary, Richmond, Ind.; Keith Stuckey, president of Anabaptist Providers Group, Lititz, Pa., elected chair; Neil Holzman, CEO of Friends Services for the Aging, Blue Bell, Pa., elected vice- chair; Kathy Reid, executive director of ABC, elected secretary; and Larry Miller, CEO of Mennonite Financial, Lancaster, Pa., continuing as treasurer.
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 800-323-8039 ext. 260 cobnews@brethren.org
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