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Date: June 10, 2005
Contact: Cheryl Brumbaugh-Cayford
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CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN NEWSLINE
June 10, 2005
 
Cross-cultural music tour receives warm welcome.
 
June 10, 2005 (Elgin, IL) -- Eight concerts, a Sunday morning special music  
appearance, and the gift of music for residents and day guests at the Roanoke
 
(Va.) Rescue Mission filled the schedule for a cross-cultural Church of the  
Brethren music group May 14-21. The group visited churches in Virginia, North
 
Carolina, and Tennessee. Scott Duffey, Gilbert Romero, and James Washington  
Sr.--all Brethren pastors--and Carol Yeazell, Congregational Life Team staff 
for  the Church of the Brethren General Board, took part in the tour.
 
The tour began in Roanoke at Oak Grove Church of the Brethren where Asha  
Solanky, chair of the Annual Conference Intercultural Study Committee, gave a
 
presentation on the current status of the work being done by the committee.  
Everyone was encouraged to take and complete a questionnaire that the
committee  
hopes will assist in carrying out its assignment.
 
Sunday morning the group provided special music at Summerdean Church of the  
Brethren in Roanoke. That afternoon a concert was held at Bethlehem Church of
 
the Brethren in Boones Mill, Va., and later that day the group was at Topeco 

Church of the Brethren in Floyd, Va.
 
On May 17 the group toured the Roanoke Rescue Mission and then performed  
during an extended lunch hour with various seatings of guests. "This was seen
as  
a stewardship of time gift, as it was an offering for others not directly  
connected to the Church of the Brethren," said Yeazell. That evening a
concert  
was held at Pleasant Valley Church of the Brethren in Weyers Cave, Va. The  
following day the group traveled to Hendersonville, N.C., to sing at a new  
church plant, HIS Way/Jesucristo El Camino.
 
Other churches that welcomed the tour were Friendship Church in North  
Wilkesboro, N.C., Spindale (N.C.) Church of the Brethren, and Trinity Church
of  the 
Brethren in Blountville, Tenn., where the final concert of the tour was 
held.
 
"The two comments that the group heard after each worship time were, `We  
wish more people had come,' and, `When are you coming back?'" Yeazell said.
The  
concerts were arranged and sponsored by Congregational Life Team staff to
help 
 congregations gain a broader understanding of what it means to be a  
cross-cultural church. Musicians offered their talent as a free gift, with
only  
their expenses covered by the board, Yeazell said. 
 
For more about cross-cultural ministry in the Church of the Brethren, see  
photographs and coverage of the recent Cross-Cultural Consultation and	
Celebration at _www.brethren.org/pjournal/2005/CrossCultural.html_ 
(http://www.brethren.org/pjournal/2005/CrossCultural.html) .
 
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 celebrates its
 300th 
anniversary in 2008. It counts about 130,000 members across the United	
States and Puerto Rico, and has missions and sister churches in Brazil, the  
Dominican Republic, Haiti, and Nigeria.
 
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For more information contact:
 
Cheryl Brumbaugh-Cayford
Director of News Services
Church of the  Brethren General Board
1451 Dundee Ave.
Elgin, IL 60120
847-742-5100  ext. 260
_cbrumbaugh-cayford_gb@brethren.org_ 
(mailto:cbrumbaugh-cayford_gb@brethren.org) 
 
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