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Date: Jan. 5, 2006
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CHICAGO-AREA PASTORS ISSUE PEACE STATEMENT FOR ADVENT 2005

Jan. 5, 2006 (Elgin, IL) -- A group of Church of the Brethren ministers in
the Chicago area made a "Statement on Peace" at an annual Advent service for
Chicago-area congregations on Dec. 11, 2005. The statement was based on
the 
Living Peace Church initiative of On Earth Peace, a Church of the Brethren
agency focused on peace education, said Orlando Redekopp, pastor of First Church
of the Brethren in Chicago.

The statement called the Chicago area congregations and members of the
Church of the Brethren to "clearly and publicly announce that all human beings  are
created in God's image" and made statements against war, torture, prisoner
abuse, and "state-sponsored lies and deception."

Among those who signed the statement were Jim Yaussy Albright, executive
minister of the Church of the Brethrenâs Illinois and Wisconsin District; Jeanne
Davies, associate pastor, and Joel Kline, pastor, of Highland Avenue Church
of  the Brethren in Elgin, Ill.; Christy Waltersdorff, pastor of York Center
Church	of the Brethren in Lombard, Ill.; and Redekopp.

The full statement may be found at
_http://www.brethren.org/genbd/newsline/2005/dec1905.htm_ (http://www.brethren.org/genbd/newsline/2005/dec1905.htm) .

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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Cheryl Brumbaugh-Cayford
Director of News Services
Church of the  Brethren General Board
1451 Dundee Ave.
Elgin, IL 60120
847-742-5100  ext. 260
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