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.

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>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