Newsline: Church of the Brethren News Service -- Feb. 19, 2008 Cheryl Brumbaugh-Cayford, News Director 800-323-8039 ext. 260 -- cobnews@brethren.org
ANABAPTIST PEACE FORUM WILL ADDRESS THEME 'BRIDGING DIVIDES'
(Feb. 19, 2008) Elgin, IL -- The Brethren Witness/Washington Office and the Anabaptist Peace Center in Washington, D.C., are jointly sponsoring an Anabaptist peace forum on the theme, "Bridging Divides: Uniting the Church for Peacemaking." The event will take place April 11-12 at Capitol Hill United Methodist Church in Washington, D.C.
The Brethren Witness/Washington Office is a ministry of the Church of the Brethren.
The forum is for pastors, theologians, service workers, academics, and laypeople to explore how the church can unite for mission despite political divides, and also how the church can work to heal divisions in communities. The event will include plenary and seminar sessions, and each day will begin with Bible study and worship.
Myron Augsburger, president and professor emeritus of Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, Va., is the keynote speaker. Other plenary and seminar speakers will include Chris Bowman, pastor of Oakton Church of the Brethren in Vienna, Va., and a former moderator of the Church of the Brethren Annual Conference; Celia Cook-Huffman, assistant professor of peace studies and associate director of the Baker Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies at Juniata College in Huntingdon, Pa.; Phil Jones, director of the Brethren Witness/Washington Office; Michelle Armster of Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) US; and Steve Brown, of Calvary Community.
Adam Tice of Hyattsville Mennonite Church, will be worship leader. A pre-conference seminar on "How We Talk When We Disagree," will be led by Grant Rissler, MCC peace and justice coordinator. Participants also are invited to join in an annual "Hymn Sing for Peace" at 5 p.m. on April 12.
The registration fee is $80, $40 for students. Register online at www.apcwdc.mennonite.net/Bridging_Divides. Or contact Keith Swartzendruber at 202-548-0010 or keith@apcwdc.mennonite.net, or contact the Brethren Witness/Washington Office at 800-785-3246 or washington_office_gb@brethren.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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