Newsline: Brethren to hold 40th annual Dunker Church service at Antietam

From CoBNews <CoBNews@brethren.org>
Date Mon, 30 Aug 2010 16:28:19 -0500

Newsline: Church of the Brethren News Service, News Director Cheryl

Brumbaugh-Cayford, 800-323-8039 ext. 260, cobnews@brethren.org

BRETHREN HOLD 40th ANNUAL DUNKER CHURCH SERVICE AT

>ANTIETAM BATTLEFIELD

(Aug. 30, 2010) Elgin, IL -- Frank Ramirez, pastor of Everett (Pa.) 
Church

of the Brethren and author of many Brethren Press titles, will preach 
for

the 40th Annual Dunker Church Service at the Antietam National

>Battlefield in Sharpsburg, Md., on Sept. 19.

The service is to start at 3 p.m. It is sponsored by area Churches of 
the

>Brethren.

The worship service will be held in the restored Mumma Meeting House

on the battlefield site, commonly referred to today as the Dunker 
Church.

The meetinghouse was built in 1853 and was heavily damaged during the

Sept. 17, 1862, Battle of Antietam. After extensive repairs were made,

>services resumed in the summer of 1864.

Ramirez also will preach at Sharpsburg (Md.) Church of the Brethren 
that

Sunday morning, at 9:30 a.m. His many books include two popular

volumes of stories about Brethren historical figures, "The Meanest Man

in Patrick County" and "Brethren Brush with Greatness." He also is the

author of the feature "Out of Context," which appears weekly in the

Brethren Press curriculum for adults, "Guide for Biblical Studies."

For more information about the service contact Eddie Edmonds at

>304-267-4135 or Tom Fralin at 301-432-2653.

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 celebrated its 300th anniversary in 2008. It counts some 123,000

members across the United States and Puerto Rico, and has missions and

sister churches in Nigeria, Brazil, the Dominican Republic, Haiti,

>and India.

># # #

>For more information contact:

>Cheryl Brumbaugh-Cayford

>Director of News Services

>Church of the Brethren

>1451 Dundee Ave., Elgin, IL 60120

>800-323-8039 ext. 260

>cobnews@brethren.org