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Newsline: Church of the Brethren News Service, News Director Cheryl

Brumbaugh-Cayford, 800-323-8039 ext. 260, cobnews@brethren.org

EMERGENCY DISASTER FUND RECEIVES MORE THAN $100,000

>FOR HAITI

(Jan. 29, 2010) Elgin, IL -- The Church of the Brethren's Emergency

Disaster Fund (EDF) has received donations totaling $102,154.54 for

the church's relief work following the Haiti earthquake. The number

represents the total of both online and by-mail donations received as

>of Wenesday morning.

Of the total, the online donations to Haiti earthquake relief have come

to $66,167.07. So far, the church's finance staff have processed $29,527.42

of mailed-in donations, with more awaiting processing.

EDF grants already given to earthquake relief efforts total $55,000: a

grant of $25,000 to support the Brethren response in Haiti, $25,000 for

the work of Church World Service, and $5,000 to Haitian First Church

of New York--a Church of the Brethren congregation--and the New York

Disaster Interfaith Services to establish a family assistance center for

Haitians relocating to the US following the earthquake.

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 celebrated its 300th anniversary in 2008. It counts some 125,000 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

>1451 Dundee Ave., Elgin, IL 60120

>800-323-8039 ext. 260

>cobnews@brethren.org