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Date:      Sept. 8, 1998
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Newsline                                     Sept. 3, 1998
1) A grant of $20,000 is allocated for disaster response in
     China.
2) Disaster worker volunteers are needed for a southeastern Ohio
     project.
3) The Brethren Cult is again featured on PrimeTime Live, and
     arrives in Fort Collins, Colo., soon after the conclusion of
     this year's Church of the Brethren National Youth           
     Conference in Fort Collins.
4) 1999 Outdoor Ministry resources are now available.
5) Brethren educational institutions form a collaborative
     recruiting venture.
6) 1998 Stewardship Resource Materials have been mailed to
     Brethren leaders.
7) Materials for the Oct. 4 World Mission Offering are available.
8) Up to three sermons each from Brethren women are being sought.
9) The calendar says NYC '98 is over, but the boxes say not yet.
10) Dennis Kingery is called to serve the General Board as
     controller/assistant treasurer.
11) Susan Grubb of Elizabethtown, Pa., has joined the General
     Board staff as interim coordinator of Orientation/Volunteer
     Service. 
12) Two job searches and a job search extension are announced by
     the General Board.
13) The Kurtz organ turns 300 on Sept. 23.
14) Elizabethtown College celebrates the beginning of its 99th
     academic year.
15) Individual giving to Bridgewater College during the 1997-1998
     academic year tops $4.5 million, making it the second best
     fundraising year in the college's history.
16) The Virlina District's Men's Cabinet will coordinate its
     Family Banquet on Oct. 25 at Oak Grove Church of the
     Brethren, Roanoke, Va.
17) A video that focuses on money was released earlier this year
     by Mennonite Board of Missions.

Features
18) A Church of the Brethren member discusses her role as
     part-time chaplain at a hospital that in March was thrust
     into the national spotlight in the wake of yet another      
     school shooting.
19) Grab your calendars. Here's some significant dates for 1999.

1) An allocation of $20,000 was made August 25 from the Church of
the Brethren General Board's Emergency Disaster Fund to support
an appeal to respond to China's worst flooding in 50 years. Over
2,000 people have died and tens of thousands are injured.
According to the release, starvation and disease are threatening
many who had to leave their homes.

These funds will be channeled to Action by Churches Together, via
Church World Service.

2) Disaster worker volunteers are desperately needed for a
project set to begin Sept. 13 in southeastern Ohio, reports the
Church of the Brethren General Board's Emergency Response/Service
Ministries. One hundred twenty eight houses were destroyed by
recent flooding, 500 were heavily damaged and nearly 2,000 others
received some form of damage. Interfaith Response to Ohio
Disasters (IROD) will ultimately decide where the Brethren relief
project will take place. For more information, contact ER/SM at
410 635-8730.

Other ER/SM disaster projects currently underway include --
     * Jefferson Country, Alabama, where 451 houses were
          destroyed and another 1,000 damaged by tornadoes. The
          Church of the Brethren has been asked to construct six
          houses in Pratt City, located northwest of Birmingham.
     * Winter Garden, Fla., which is in response to February
          tornadoes.
     * Roan Mountain/Hampton, Tenn., where the Church of the
          Brethren is now completing its sixth and final house,
          constructed in the aftermath of severe floods.

3) The cult called The Brethren, which was featured last March on
the ABC television program, PrimeTime Live, was again featured on
the same program in late August. Most of the second broadcast was
a rerun of the first, although a short follow-up was included. 

Fifteen minutes after the March broadcast host Dianne Sawyer
stated that the Brethren cult was in no way affilated with the
Church of the Brethren. Prior to August's broadcast Church of the
Brethren representatives tried to contact PrimeTime Live to seek
a similar disclaimer, but to no avail.

Although there is no direct connection between the 142,000 Church
of the Brethren members and the estimated 100 people who call
themselves Brethren, it is interesting to note that members of
the Brethren cult surfaced in Fort Collins, Colo., soon after the
conclusion of this year's Church of the Brethren National Youth
Conference in early August. The Brethren cult members have
attracted Fort Collins and Denver media coverage, and thus Church
of the Brethren officials have worked at clarifying the fact that
the twenty-year Brethren cult has absolutely nothing to do with
the Church of the Brethren, which was established in 1708. In
fact, an Aug. 27 feature in the Denver Post on the cult included
a sidebar on the Church of the Brethren, quoting Sarah Leatherman
Young, pastor of Prince of Peace Church of the Brethren in
Littleton, Colo.

In addition, a disclaimer has been moved back to the top of the
official Church of the Brethren web site. This move was deemed
necessary in light of the fact that several phone calls and
e-mails were received by Church of the Brethren staff from people
looking for friends or family members who had joined the Brethren
cult and dropped out of site following the March broadcast.

4) "God is in Our Midst," outdoor ministry resources for 1999,
are now available to order. Available from Brethren Press and the
publishing houses of six other denominations, these resources are
"centered in the biblical version of creation as it takes
participants on a journey of discovering what it means to love
God and all of God's gifts," reads the brochure. "The leader's
goal is to teach participants the responsibility of God's gift of
creation. Participants in turn learn about the Bible, become
aware of God as Creator, develop a concern for the environment
and will have fun while taking part in the program."

The resources include materials on worship, Bible study,
spiritual formation, groups and individuals, learning activities,
environmental awareness and community development. Leaders'
guides are for children ages 7-12, 12-15 and 15-18. Resource
booklets are for ages 5-7, 7-12, 12-15 and 15-18. A song book,
"Come Join the Circle," is also available.

For more information, contact Brethren Press at
brethren_press_gb@brethren.org or at 800 441-3712.

5) It used to be that the six Church of the Brethren-affiliated
colleges and university divided the United States into regions,
with each institution staying within its boundaries when trying
to recruit Brethren students.

No more.

In August the colleges and university, along with Bethany
Theological Seminary and the Brethren Colleges Abroad (BCA)
foreign exchange program, announced CoBCOA -- Church of the
Brethren Collaboration on Admissions -- a collaborative effort at
recruiting Brethren students.

One of CoBCOA's tasks will be to create a database of would-be
college students, Brethren and nonBrethren alike.

"Brethren students are important to us," reads the announcement.
"They reinforce strong Brethren values found on our campuses and
add immeasurably to student and academic life. At the same time,
we continue contributing to the future of the Church of the
Brethren. The seminary and Brethren colleges have long been
training grounds for Brethren pastoral and lay leadership, and
BCA has fostered cultural understanding and a broad world view
among those who participate."

The six Brethren colleges and university are Bridgewater (Va.)
College; Elizabethtown (Pa.) College; Juniata College,
Huntingdon, Pa.; University of La Verne (Calif.); Manchester
College, North Manchester, Ind.; and McPherson (Kan.) College.

For more information on this initiative, or to add names to the
database, contact David McFadden at 219 982-5055.

6) "The Heart is For Giving," a packet of 1998 Stewardship
Resource Materials, has been sent to Brethren congregations and
leaders by Ken Neher, director of Funding for the Church of the
Brethren General Board.

The packet includes a stewardship-based bulletin and bulletin
inserts; a booklet titled "Journal of Stewardship: Celebrating 50
Years!" which is a handbook of stewardship concerns, issues and
ideas; and an order form for a variety of materials pertaining to
the 1998 theme; commitment plans; tithing; congregational
planning; general stewardship resources; adult study units; youth
and children; financial planning; and stewardship of creation.

"We have a challenge before us," writes Neher in the packet's
cover letter. "Counteracting the hundreds of daily messages to
buy this and that and indulge ourselves requires a year-round
effort. For this reason, I encourage you to regularly emphasize
biblical study and reflection for your local congregation and
about stewardship and outreach in these times."

7) The focus of this year's World Mission Offering, scheduled for
Oct. 4, will highlight the 75th anniversary of Ekklesiyar Yan'uwa
a Nigeria (the Church of the Brethren in Nigeria). In preparation
for this offering, a packet of related resources was sent to each
Church of the Brethren congregation in August.

Materials in this packet include a listing of nearly 100 former
mission workers to Nigeria who are available to interpret EYN's
story at congregational, district and other settings; a resource
guide of interpretive materials; an invitation to U.S. children
to colorfully and creatively construct greetings to Nigerian
churches (an informational sheet describing the recommended size
of the greetings along with listing several pertinent scriptures
and hymns is available); a worship planning sheet; a compilation
of stories from the EYN/Church of the Brethren partnership; and a
poem by former missionary Glenn Mitchell.

For more information on the World Mission Offering or the packet
of resources, contact the Church of the Brethren General Board's
Interpretation Office at hroyer_gb@brethren.org or at 800
323-8039.

8) A Sermons of Women project is seeking up to three sermons from
Brethren women to be considered for inclusion in an upcoming
publication. Nancy Faus and Dena Pence Frantz, who have a grant
from Bethany Theological Seminary for the project, started the
project last year.

Of particular interest are sermons written for Christmas Eve or
Christmas; the new year; and Easter/Eastertide/Pentecost. Sermons
written for communion, baptisms, child dedications and funerals
or memorial services (especially special circumstances) are also
of interest.

Each submitted sermon should include --
     * name, address, phone number and e-mail address;
     * the scripture used, with particular version cited;
     * the season of the church year or ritual/passage of life
          for which the sermon was written;
     * bibliographic citations for any quotes, illustrations or
          references to other published writings;
     * the location, date and any special occasion or situation
          in the congregation for which the sermon was preached.

Submissions should be mailed to:
     Sermons of Women
     Bethany Theological Seminary
     615 National Road West
     Richmond, IN 47374

The deadline is Nov. 30. Sermons will not be returned, though
receipt of all sermons will be acknowledged.

9) The calendar may indicate that NYC '98 is over, but the
remaining boxes of t-shirts and Habitat for Humanity hammers
suggest that it may linger on a little while longer. 

Extra hammers from the two NYC Habitat for Humanity building
projects are available for purchase. Cost is $10 and each hammer
is engraved in big print with "NYC '98 Fort Collins, CO." In
smaller print the hammers have "Habitat for Humanity, Windsor,
Colo." The two Habitat houses constructed by NYCers were for the
Windsor Habitat affiliate.

NYC t-shirts are also available for $5. For more information,
contact the NYC office at 800 323-8039.

10) Dennis Kingery has accepted the position of
controller/assistant treasurer of the Church of the Brethren
General Board, beginning Sept. 14. Kingery is a McPherson (Kan.)
graduate, with a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting and
business finance. He most recently completed a two-year Brethren
Volunteer Service assignment as a teacher of business and
accounting at Hillcrest School in Jos, Nigeria.

11) Susan Grubb of Elizabethtown, Pa., has agreed to serve as
interim coordinator of Orientation/Volunteer Service for the
Church of the Brethren General Board's Volunteer Service
Ministries until the position is filled permanently. Grubb, who
will begin Wednesday, will coordinate the fall orientation unit
of Brethren Volunteer Service.

Grubb served in BVS for five years -- at Queen Louise Home for
Children in St. Croix, Virgin Islands (1992-93); at Hillcrest
School, Jos, Nigeria (1994-96); and at the Church of the Brethren
General Offices as BVS orientation assistant (1996-97).

12) The Church of the Brethren General Board's Office of Human
Resources has announced two job openings and an extended search
for a third position.

A full-time manager of Emergency Response/Service Ministries is
being sought. This person will direct and supervise the operation
and personnel of disaster response, material resources and
refugee resettlement; will maintain ecumenical and governmental
relationships; and will develop a funding base by fostering good
relationships.
     
The position comes with several experience, education and skills
requirements, including Church of the Brethren membership. 

A one-fourth time Area Finance Resource Counselor for the Plains
States has been announced. This person will secure regular,
deferred and special gifts in support of General Board
ministries, and will assist congregations, districts and donors
with financial and gift planning.

The position comes with several experience and education
requirements, including familiarity with the Church of the
Brethren in the Plains states.

Application deadline for both positions is Nov. 1.

The extension of a search for an Area 2 Congregational Life Team
member and West Marva District executive has been announced.
Applications will be accepted until this position is filled.

For more information on any of these positions, contact Elsie
Holderread at eholderread_gb@brethren.org or at 800 323-8039.

13) Nearly 300 years ago, a German craftsman put the following
inscription on his latest masterpiece --
     In the forenoon of September 23, 1698, I Johan Christoph
     Harttman, organ maker of Nurttingen, firmly closed this
     small wind chest. May God grant that many beautiful and     
     spiritual psalms and songs be played and struck on this work
     to His name's honor.

Nothing more is known about the history of what today is known as
the "Kurtz" organ until it came into the possession of Henry
Kurtz, the 19th century Brethren leader who is remembered as a
publisher, editor, printer, Annual Meeting clerk and minister. In
1851 he began publication of The Gospel Visitor, the first
periodical published for the Brethren which continues on today as
the monthly magazine, Messenger.

According to Ken Shaffer, manager of the Brethren Historical
Library and Archives, it is not known if Kurtz brought the organ
with him from Germany when he immigrated to the United States in
1817, or if he acquired it after arriving in the states. He
rarely used the organ after joining the Brethren because they did
not approve of the use of musical instruments. After his death in
1874, the organ was passed on to his descendants.  

In 1957 the organ was placed in the care of the Brethren
Historical Committee. Alvin Brightbill and Paul Beiber began the
work of restoring the organ in their spare time. In 1975 the
General Board hired John Brombaugh to complete the restoration.
The organ was on display at the 1976 Annual Conference in
Wichita, Kansas. 

Today it is part of the Brethren Historical Library and Archives
collection. A short celebration of the organ's 300th anniversary
is planned at the General Offices in Elgin, Illinois, on Sept.
23.  

14) Elizabethtown (Pa.) College celebrated the beginning of its
99th academic year with its annual Opening Convocation, Aug. 30,
in the Leffler Chapel and Performance Center. President Theodore
Long delivered the opening address, "Renewing a Heritage --
Transforming a College."

Fall enrollment stands at 1,536, with 427 freshmen. 

15) Alumni and friends of Bridgewater (Va.) College boosted their
giving to the college by 36 percent during the 1997-1998 academic
year, topping $4.5 million for the first time in five years and
placing second for the in the list of top fundraising years. The
best year was 1992-1993, when a $9.9 million estate gift was
received, sending giving to $11.7 million. The only other time
that private giving to the college exceeded $4 million was in
1985-1986, in response to rebuilding efforts of the college's
athletic fields following flooding.

16) The Virlina District's Men's Cabinet is resuming what had
been a long-standing tradition -- its Family Banquet. Scheduled
for Oct. 25 at Oak Grove Church of the Brethren, Roanoke, Va.,
the banquet will feature Mark Fuller, a Christian magician.
Proceeds from the event will go to the Men's Cabinet, which
states it is committed to the work of the district and to the
ministry of the district's camp, Camp Bethel, in Fincastle, Va.
Other events sponsored by the Men's Cabinet include a January
bowling tournament, a Camp Bethel work day in April and a Gospel
Fest in May.

For more information, contact Keith Simmons at 540 334-5091.

17) A video that discusses a taboo subject -- money -- was
released earlier this year by the Mennonite Board of Missions.
"Beyond the News: Money" addresses stewardship issues and the
personal background and emotional connections that affect how
money is viewed and used. Ten segments (for a total of 55
minutes) cover a variety of questions --
     * How is thinking about money influenced by society and
          family?
     * Is having a lot of material things a sign of God's
          blessing?
     * Does stewardship mean careful spending or taking risks?
     * How can children be taught to understand the difference
          between desires and needs?

"Beyond the News: Money" is ninth in a series of videos that
includes topics such as TV violence, the death penalty, firearms
violence, homelessness, racism and sexual abuse. For more
information, call 800 999-3534.

18) Gayle Sheller, a pastor and Church of the Brethren member
from Springfield, Ore., fills in occasionally as chaplain at the
local hospital. In March that assignment led her into the middle
of the aftermath of a deadly school shooting. In a close-knit
community where nearly everyone was related to or knew someone
killed, injured or affected by the shooting, the grieving and
coping continue. Gayle's story -- 

The morning of May 21st was beautiful, the way Oregon can be
beautiful=97clean blue sky and brilliant flowers in bloom.  I was
driving to my office when the news came over my car radio -- a
shooting at Thurston High School, one of two high schools in
Springfield, my hometown of just over 50,000 people. I listened
intently, hearing first that only a few students had been shot,
apparently by another student. Then the news took a terrible turn
-- more than 20 children were wounded. 

I turned around and drove to McKenzie-Willamette Hospital where I
am one of several volunteer chaplains who work with the
hospital's full-time chaplain. As I drove, I thought, "It's
happening again. O God, our babies are killing our babies. Please
be with us." It was all I could think to pray.

Our first task at the hospital was to connect families with their
wounded children, finding which hospital their child had been
admitted to, since both McKenzie-Willamette in Springfield and
Sacred Heart five miles away in Eugene, were on full trauma alert
given the number of critically and seriously wounded students. 

Images of those first hours -- 
     * boxes of Kleenex around the room where parents gathered to
          find their children; 
     * students flooding the parking lot wanting to know about
          wounded friends; 
     * the hospital locked down like a war zone to protect the
          privacy of families from the dozens of reporters
          surrounding the hospital in their huge vans with
          satellite dishes aimed at the sky; 
     * members of families with students in critical condition
          being escorted to waiting rooms where all was terribly
          silent except for the television news coverage of the 
          shooting.    

A second shock wave went through the hospital as the alleged
shooter was identified, along with the news that he had
apparently shot and killed his mother and father, both beloved
teachers in our community. Kip Kinkel's parents, Bill and Faith,
were known to many in Springfield, including to some of the
hospital staff. Faith was the Spanish teacher at Springfield High
where several teens from Springfield Church of the Brethren
attended. Bill had taught two generations of Springfielders at
Thurston High, then at our community college. One receptionist at
the hospital sobbed and said of Bill, "He was such a gentle, good
teacher. I would never have known he had troubles at home." 

The tragedy intensified as we learned that Kip had spent the
night booby-trapping his home with bombs that took experts two
days to disarm so they could reach his parents' bodies. I could
not comprehend the darkness this child must have been lost in.  
     

I went next to the surgical floor to see to the needs of families
with children coming from surgery. In the first room, I met a
sophomore girl, her parents and grandmother holding her hands.
This young woman, wounded twice, first asked about her friend
whom she'd seen shot in the forehead. Then she wanted to talk
about Kip, the boy she watched spray the school cafeteria with
fifty bullets, because she had classes with him and had thought
he was a nice, quiet boy.

In the next room was a young man just out of abdominal surgery,
with bullet wounds to his stomach, tube down his throat, hooked
up to oxygen. His younger brother sat by one side of his bed, his
mother by the other, simply watching her son breathe. His father
leaned against the far wall, arms crossed, slowly shaking his
head from side to side, his shock evident, along with beginning
edges of anger. The mother, who had stayed at home to care for
her two sons and has led the Boy Scout troop and volunteered at
the High School just a few blocks from home, looked up at me and
quietly asked, "How do we keep them safe?"

At the end of the day, we had a debriefing time for hospital
staff. 

The tears flowed freely and fears were admitted as hospital staff
with children at Thurston High spoke of anxiously waiting to
learn if their kids were were wounded. One emergency nurse said
he hadn't seen anything like this since Viet Nam. Now we each
needed to go home to do the very personal work of consoling our
own children and being consoled by friends and loved ones, people
also in shock. With so many wounded, no one was more than one or
two people away from a hurt child.

Since then, we've had a number of community meetings, community
worships and memorial services. We work at forgiveness and
healing, but that comes slowly and often only by God's grace. We
are aware that our lives have a new color, and that even the old
rivalry between the two high schools in town will never be the
same. We felt ourselves as one community with Eugene, the big
sister city across the river, as Eugene residents poured out
their skills, their support and their gifts to those families so
deeply wounded. Experts in childhood trauma worked with
administrators and teachers this summer preparing for this school
year. And there was the famous, stunning wall of flowers and
mementos at Thurston High School itself. Some of those gifts will
be added to a permanent memorial at Thurston High. Forgetting
will not be of any service. 

What have we learned?  Could anything have been done to prevent
this tragedy? Certainly access to guns played a role, but it is
also true that a boy who knew guns well was able to stop the
shooting when he knew that the 50-round clip had just emptied,
forcing Kip to have to reload, something Kip was prepared to do.
The lack of access to intensive mental health services for
parents deemed well off and educated enough to control their own
children, especially as insurance companies continue to reduce
coverage for mental health care, is a stark issue in this
tragedy. Some of those who mourn deeply are teachers and
counselors who worked hard with Kip. Kip's friends,
fifteen-year-old boys, understand that they lost Kip, too, and
want to see him, not to ask him "Why?" since their young wisdom
is that he probably can't say, but to simply tell him good-bye.  

We also need to make it safe for students to talk with counselors
or police officers if someone says things that scare them. We've
made it ok to tell when someone's talking about suicide.  It
needs to be seen as important to tell when someone seems enraged
or talks of hurting others. There is the issue of making it ok
and safe for parents to admit when a child is out of control and
not be accused of parental failure. It does take a village to
raise a child, particularly a child with deep problems not easily
addressed by normal behavioral controls. We have learned that
blaming brings no comfort and no solution to this tragedy.  

I have come to appreciate anew my community's leaders. They are
people of compassion and faith.  They want our children to know
that they are welcome, that our town is a child-friendly place.
To that end, the Parks and Recreation Department this summer
lowered the fee to the swimming pools for children under 18 to 50
cents, even though taxes to support parks have been cut by voters
over and over. Such gestures help the healing. People we ask to
serve us need our prayers and our support. Their lives have been
deeply disrupted by this tragedy, but they continue to address it
in a multitude of helpful ways. 

Finally, my answer to the Mom at the hospital is that we cannot
keep our children safe from those determined to hurt them. But we
can entrust them to God's care and we can make the children in
our community welcome. We can support and pray for their teachers
and for all of those who raise our children along with us. We can
do a better job of being community at every possible level. 

19) Mark the following dates down in your calendar. These dates,
which used to be included in the now-discontinued Church of the
Brethren Program Calendar, will be included in the Brethren
Reminder calendar, which will be available in October.

     January
          1    New Year's Day
          6    Epiphany
          8    Staff Consultation (8-10)
          17   BVS Unit 232, Orlando, Fla. (17-Feb 5)
          18   Martin Luther King Jr. Day
               Week of Prayer for Christian Unity (18-25)
          21   Older Adult Ministries Workcamp, Puerto Rico
                    (21-Feb. 1)
          24   Ecumenical Sunday

     February
          3    CoBACE conference, Chicago, Ill. (3-6)
          6    CODE Meeting (6-8)
          12   Lincoln's Birthday
          14   Valentine's Day
          15   President's Day
          17   Ash Wednesday
          22   Washington's Birthday

     March
          5    World Day of Prayer
          6    General Board, Elgin, Ill. (6-9)
          7    Spring curriculum quarter begins
          14   One Great Hour of Sharing offering emphasis
          12   ABC Board, Elgin, Ill. (12-13)
          17   St. Patrick's Day
          19   Bethany Seminary Board (19-21)
               Central America Week (19-28)
          28   Palm Sunday

     April
          1    Maundy Thursday
          2    Good Friday
          4    Easter
               Daylight Saving Time begins
          9    Regional Youth Conference, McPherson College
                    (9-11)
          10   Christian Citizenship Seminar (10-15)
          11   Eastern Orthodox Easter
          17   Brethren Benefit Trust Board, Elgin, Ill. (17-18)
               Regional Youth Conference, Bridgewater College
                    (17-19)
          21   Secretaries Day
          22   Earth Day
          23   Regional Youth Conference, Manchester College
                    (23-25)
          25   Soil & Water Stewardship Week (25-May 2)

     May
          2    National Youth Sunday
               Family Life Week (2-9)
          6    National Day of Prayer
          7    May Fellowship Day
          8    Bethany Seminary Commencement
          9    Mother's Day
               Rural Life Sunday
          12   Ministry Advisory Council (12-14)
          13   Ascension 
          16   Health Promotion Sunday
          23   Pentecost Sunday
          28   Young Adult Conference (28-30)
          31   Memorial Day

     June
          1    Caring Ministries 2000 Conference, Elizabethtown,
                    Pa. (1-4)
          5    World Environment Day
               Young Adult Workcamp, Northern Ireland (5-10)
          6    Summer curriculum quarter begins
          14   Sr. High Workcamp, Puerto Rico (14-20)
               Sr. High Workcamp, Perryville Ark. (14-20)
          20   Father's Day
          21   Sr. High Workcamp, Brooklyn, N.Y. (21-27)
               Sr. High Workcamp, Tijuana, Mexico (21-27)
               Sr. High Workcamp, Germantown, Pa. (21-27)
          23   Jr. High Workcamp, Harrisburg, Pa. (23-27)
          27   General Board, Milwaukee, Wis. (26-29)
          28   Ministers Conference, Milwaukee, Wis. (28-29)
          29   Annual Conference, Milwaukee, Wis. (29-July 4)

     July
          1    Brethren Benefit Trust Board, Milwaukee, Wis.
          4    Independence Day
          5    Sr. High Workcamp, Broken Bow, Okla.(5-11)
          7    Sr. High Workcamp, Jamaica (7-13)
          11   Sr. High Workcamp, Manchester, Ky. (11-17)
          12   Sr. High Workcamp, Orangeburg, S.C. (12-18)
          14   Jr. High Workcamp, New Windsor, Md. (14-18)
          18   BVS Unit 234, New Windsor, Md. (18-Aug 8)
          19   Sr. High Workcamp, Denver, Colo. (19-15)
               Sr. High Workcamp, Putney, Vt. (19-25)
          21   Jr. High Workcamp, Harrisburg, Pa. (21-25)
          26   Sr. High Workcamp, Americus, Ga. (26-31)
          28   Sr. High Workcamp, St. Croix (28-Aug. 3)
               Jr. High Workcamp, Washington, D.C. (28-Aug. 1)

     August
          2    Sr. High Workcamp, Mendenhall, Miss. (2-8)
          4    Jr. High Workcamp, Lake Geneva, Wis. (4-8)
               Jr. High Workcamp, Indianapolis, Ind. (4-8)
          6    Hiroshima Day
          9    Sr. High Workcamp, Chicago, Ill. (9-15)
               Sr. High Workcamp, Monterey, Mass. (9-15)
          11   Jr. High Workcamp, Richmond, Va. (11-15)
          15   BRF/BVS Unit 235, Roxbury, Pa. (15-25)

     September
          5    Fall curriculum quarter begins
          6    Labor Day
          12   Bethany Emphasis Sunday
          19   BVS Unit 236, Bethel, Pa. (19-Oct. 8)
          24   ABC Board, Elgin, Ill. (24-25)
          26   CODE Professional Growth (26-29)

     October
          3    World Communion Sunday
               World Mission offering emphasis
          10   Laity Sunday
          11   Columbus Day
          15   National Observance of Children's Sabbaths (15-17)
          16   General Board, Elgin, Ill. (16-19)
               National Boss Day
               Peace with Justice Week (16-24)
               World Food Day
          24   World Disarmament Day
          29   Bethany Seminary Board (29-31)
          31   Daylight Saving Time ends
               Reformation Sunday

     November
          2    Election Day
          5    World Community Day
          7    Junior High Sunday
               Stewardship Sunday
          19   Brethren Benefit Trust Board (19-20)
          21   Bible Sunday
          25   Thanksgiving
          28   First Sunday of Advent

     December
          5    Second Sunday of Advent
               Winter curriculum quarter begins
          10   Human Rights Day
          12   Third Sunday of Advent
               Christmas/Achievement offering emphasis
          19   Fourth Sunday of Advent
          25   Christmas Day

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