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Date: June 23, 2005
Contact: Cheryl Brumbaugh-Cayford
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CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN NEWSLINE
June 23, 2005
 
Susanna Farahat joins the staff of On Earth Peace
 
June 23, 2005 (Elgin, IL) -- On Earth Peace has announced that Susanna	
Farahat will join the staff in August as the new coordinator of Peacemaker  
Formation. She will oversee an extensive peace education program that serves
all  
ages, with an emphasis on youth and young adults. On Earth Peace is an agency
of  
the Church of the Brethren Annual Conference.
 
Farahat is a member of York Center Church of the Brethren in Lombard, Ill.,  
and a recent graduate of Bryn Mawr College. She brings teaching experience
and 
a  strong sense of the educational process, along with a wide variety of 
community  service experiences to the position. Farahat will be based at the
New 
Windsor  (Md.) office of On Earth Peace.
 
Kim Stuckey Hissong, the current coordinator of Peacemaker Formation, will  
begin graduate studies in social work this fall.
 
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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