Newsline: Church of the Brethren News Service -- May 24, 2007 Cheryl Brumbaugh-Cayford, News Director 800-323-8039 ext. 260 -- cobnews@brethren.org
OLDER ADULT UNIT BEGINS WORK THROUGH BRETHREN VOLUNTEER SERVICE
(May 24, 2007) Elgin, IL -- A unit of older adult volunteers has completed orientation for participation in Brethren Volunteer Service (BVS), a volunteer service organization of the Church of the Brethren. The New Windsor (Md.) Conference Center hosted the nine members of BVS Older Adult Unit 274 for an orientation from April 23-May 4.
During the orientation, volunteers had several days to serve the community including a workday at the Brethren Service Center working at A Greater Gift/SERRV, and an opportunity to work with the Brethren Nutrition Program in Washington, D.C.
The volunteers, their home congregations or home towns, and placements (if known at this time) are: Marilou Booth of Pasadena (Calif.) Church of the Brethren; MaryAnn Davis of Live Oak (Calif.) Church of the Brethren; David and Maria Huber of Yellow Creek (Ind.) Church of the Brethren, who will work at the New Windsor (Md.) Conference Center; Barbara and Ron Siney of West Charleston (Ohio) Church of the Brethren, who will be placed at Alderson (W.Va.) Hospitality House; Kent and Sarah Switzer of Cedar Lake (Ind.) Church of the Brethren, who will go to the World Friendship Center in Hiroshima, Japan; and Steve VanZandt of Washington, D.C., who will volunteer with Cooperiis in Mill Spring, N.C.
For more information about Brethren Volunteer Service call the BVS office at 800-323-8039 or visit www.brethrenvolunteerservice.org.
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 Nigeria, Brazil, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and India.
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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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