Newsline: Church's Elgin IL warehouse part of MLK food drive

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Newsline: Church of the Brethren News Service, News Director Cheryl 
Brumbaugh-Cayford, 800-323-8039 ext. 260, cobnews@brethren.org

Church's Elgin warehouse to be collection point for MLK food drive

(Jan. 12, 2012) Elgin, IL -- The warehouse at the Church of the Brethren 
General Offices in Elgin, Ill., is to be the collection point for the city's 
food drive commemorating Martin Luther King Day. Food collected over the 
weekend by churches and schools will be brought to the warehouse at 1451 Dundee 
Ave. for sorting and distribution to area food pantries and the Community 
Crisis Center that serves families affected by domestic violence.

Youth from across Elgin also are invited to make Monday, Jan. 16, a day for 
service to the community, with the food collection at the church's warehouse as 
one option for youth groups to take part. 

Brethren Volunteer Service workers Rachel Witkovsky and Catherine Gong will be 
two of the workshop presenters at the afternoon Youth Leadership Conference 
that will follow the morning's service projects.

This year is Elgin's 27th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration. 
Additional elements of the weekend--which are being planned with input from the 
Elgin Human Relations Commission and church congregations along with other 
community organizations--are a Friday evening Gospel Talent Show Kick Off at 
Elgin Community College, an Annual Prayer Breakfast on Saturday morning, and a 
public program featuring a community choir on Sunday afternoon.

>More information is at www.cityofelgin.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 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
>cobnews@brethren.org