Newsline: BBT co-sponsors financial and benefits seminar for congregations
From CoBNews <CoBNews@brethren.org>Date Thu, 3 Nov 2011 13:29:38 -0500
Newsline: Church of the Brethren News Service, News Director Cheryl Brumbaugh-Cayford, 800-323-8039 ext. 260, cobnews@brethren.org BBT co-sponsors financial and benefits seminar for congregations (Nov. 3, 2011) Elgin, IL -- Registration is open for the Best Practices Resource Workshop on Feb. 4, 2012, from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. at Kansas City (Mo.) International Airport Marriott. The seminar is co-sponsored by Brethren Benefit Trust, and is designed for pastors, church treasurers, financial secretaries, stewardship and finance committee members, and others involved with the finances of churches. The workshop will empower leaders to better understand best practices in financial management for local congregations, health reform and the church, latest pastoral housing issues, and taxation, compensation, and retirement issues. It is led by the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability, a Christian financial educational organization. A group of member denominations affiliated with the Church Benefits Association, including BBT, is sponsoring the event. Registration information is at www.ecfa.org/events. Scroll down to the "Best Practices Resource Workshop" and click on "Register now." Registration fee is $50. 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