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Date:      June 12, 1998
Contact:  Nevin Dulabaum
V:  847/742-5100   F:  847/742-6103
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Newsline                                          June 12, 1998

News
1) About 150 people will participate in this year's Youth/Young
     Adult Ministries workcamps.
2) Todd Reish resigns as coordinator of Brethren Volunteer
     Service Orientation.
3) Ned Stowe will join the General Board staff in July as interim
     controller.
4) Ronald Frederick will be SERRV International's new manager of
     Administration.
5) A change in Nigeria's leadership gives hope that a democratic
     system will be adopted.
6) Two officials of Ekklesiyar Yan'uwa a Nigeria will attend the
     Church of the Brethren Annual Conference in Orlando and
     other denominational events.
7) A new booklet on Brethren mission philosophy will be available
     in early July. 
8) A resource packet on Brethren Volunteer Service's 50th
     anniversary is being sent to each Church of the Brethren
     congregation.
9) Bulletins from the 1999 Living Word Bulletin Series can now be ordered.
10) Three grants totaling $18,750 are allocated from Emergency
     Disaster Fund.
11) Brethren Service Center ships two 20-foot containers to the
     Republic of Congo.
12) Nearly $600,000 was allocated from Emergency Disaster Fund 
     in 1997.
13) SERRV International convenes a seminar to assist Latin
     American artisans.
14) The second Brethren World Assembly is scheduled for July 15-18.
15) The Brethren Encyclopedia's 1998 catalog features two new items. 
16) The cornerstone of the Butler Chapel A.M.E. church in
     Orangeburg, S.C., is laid.
17) Williamson Road Church of the Brethren, Roanoke, Va.,
     celebrates its 50th anniversary.
18) Virlina District offers prayers and support to Judy Mills
     Reimer as she moves to Illinois.
19) Mutual Aid Association adds flood and water damage coverage.
20) The Brethren Bible Institute is scheduled for July 27-31 at
     Elizabethtown (Pa.) College.
21) The Amy Foundation announces its 14th annual writing awards
     competition.
22) An interdisciplinary conference sponsored by the Young Center
     for the Study of Anabaptist and Pietist Groups,
     Elizabethtown, Pa., is scheduled for June 18-20.
23) Addition.

Feature
24) With signs that support is growing for proposed federal
     legislation that would create a Peace Tax Fund -- allowing
     conscientious objectors to pay taxes without contributing   
     to the military -- the Church of the Brethren Washington
     Office urges Brethren to voice their support of the proposed
     legislation to federal legislators.