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Date: June 23, 2005
Contact: Cheryl Brumbaugh-Cayford
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CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN NEWSLINE
June 23, 2005

Exploring Your Call event for youth will be held at Bethany Theological
Seminary

June 23, 2005 (Elgin, IL) -- Exploring Your Call, an event for high school
sophomores, juniors, and seniors, will be held at Bethany Theological Seminary
in Richmond, Ind., on Aug. 4-9. The event is an opportunity for youth to
consider issues of faith and vocation. Bethany is the Church of the Brethren’s
theological school.

Remaining funds from a $2 million grant from Lilly Endowment Inc.'s
Theological Vocational Exploration Program Initiative, received by Manchester  College
on behalf of eight Brethren institutions, allow Bethany to offer the  event
for an additional year. Activities include classes taught by seminary
professors, shadowing area pastors, planning and leading worship services,
participating in hands-on ministry and service activities, and group-building
recreational activities. Russell Haitch, assistant professor of Christian  Education
and director of the Institute for Ministry with Youth and Young  Adults, will
oversee the event.

Participants' only cost is travel expense to and from Richmond.  Registration
is limited to 20 participants. Begin the sign-up and registration  process
via e-mail by sending the following information to _EYC@bethanyseminary.edu_
(mailto:EYC@bethanyseminary.edu) : name,  address, telephone and alternate
telephone, e-mail address, birthdate and age,  home congregation, pastor, church
telephone, person to notify in case of	emergency and that person's relationship
to the youth and their telephone and  address.

For more information e-mail _EYC@bethanyseinary.edu_
(mailto:EYC@bethanyseinary.edu)  or call  800-287-8822 ext. 1821.

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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