Newsline: Spanish language ministry training track now available to Brethren

From CoBNews <[email protected]>
Date Fri, 19 Nov 2010 11:23:23 -0600

Newsline: Church of the Brethren News Service, News Director Cheryl
Brumbaugh-Cayford, 800-323-8039 ext. 260, [email protected]

NEW SPANISH LANGUAGE MINISTRY TRAINING TRACK IS AVAILABLE TO BRETHREN

(Nov. 19, 2010) Elgin, IL -- A new Spanish language ministry training 
track is being created for the Church of the Brethren, through the 
Brethren Academy for Ministerial Leadership and a Mennonite ministry 
certification program, Seminario Biblico Anabautista Hispano. 

The Brethren Academy is a partnership of the Church of the Brethren 
and Bethany Theological Seminary.

In a report to the fall meeting of the Mission and Ministry Board, 
academy director Julie M. Hostetter outlined how the new program will 
work as a Brethren track in the Mennonite Education Agency's program 
for Hispanic Pastoral Leadership Education. The Spanish language 
training track, SeBAH-CoB, will parallel the Academy Certified 
Training System (ACTS) programs that the Church of the Brethren 
currently has in place for English speaking students.

District-based student cohort groups will be created, some of which 
may include both Brethren and Mennonites. The first cohort is in 
Atlantic Northeast District, and is scheduled to hold orientation at 
the Brethren Service Center in New Windsor, Md., on Jan. 20-23, 2011. 
This first cohort group can include up to 15 students.

At its district conference this past weekend, Pacific Southwest 
District affirmed the formation of a Brethren-Mennonite cohort group 
that will have an orientation session in late winter 2011. Several 
additional districts and individuals have expressed interest in the 
SeBAH-CoB program and more cohorts will be formed in the future. For 
more information contact the Brethren Academy for Ministerial 
Leadership, at 800-287-8822 ext. 1820.

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 
123,000 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
>[email protected]