Newsline: Church of the Brethren News Service -- Sept. 28, 2007 Cheryl Brumbaugh-Cayford, News Director 800-323-8039 ext. 260 -- cobnews@brethren.org
ON EARTH PEACE SPONSORS MIDDLE EAST PEACEMAKING
DELEGATION
(Sept. 28, 2007) Elgin, IL -- On Earth Peace is sponsoring a delegation to the Middle East--Israel/Palestine--led by executive director Bob Gross on Jan. 8-21, 2008. On Earth Peace is an agency of the Church of the Brethren, carrying out the work of empowering people to discern the things that make for peace.
The trip is being led in conjunction with Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT), which since June 1995 has maintained a team of trained peacemakers in Hebron.
The delegation will travel to the cities of Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and Hebron. There they will have the unique opportunity to meet with Israeli and Palestinian peace and human rights workers. In addition, delegation members will join CPT in Hebron and the village of At-Tuwani in a limited amount of accompaniment and documentation, and in a public witness.
Applications are available through the On Earth Peace website (www.onearthpeace.org) and are due in November. Contact On Earth Peace executive director Bob Gross at 260-982-7751 or bgross@igc.org; or Claire Evans at Christian Peacemaker Teams (www.cpt.org), 773- 277-0253 or delegations@cpt.org.
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 almost 130,000 members across the United States and Puerto Rico, and has missions and sister churches in Nigeria, Brazil, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and India.
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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 800-323-8039 ext. 260 cobnews@brethren.org
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