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Date: August 4, 2005
Contact: Cheryl Brumbaugh-Cayford
V: 847/742-5100 F:  847/742-6103
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CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN NEWSLINE
August 4, 2005
 
Retreat focuses on the Church of the Brethren in mission in the 21st  century
 
August 4, 2005 (Elgin, IL) -- A retreat on "Another Way of Sending:  Brethren

in Mission in the 21st Century" will be held Nov. 2-3 at the Rising  Phoenix 
Retreat Center in Flintstone, Md., sponsored by the Church of the  Brethren 
General Board's Congregational Life Team for Area One. Wally Landes,  pastor
of 
Palmyra (Pa.) Church of the Brethren, will be the leader, working from	his 
material published in the new Church of the Brethren resource, "Growing  
Faithful Disciples."
 
The retreat will focus on the questions, How do we understand the concept  of

mission? In what ways is your congregation in mission? In America's  
pluralistic setting, how do we engage in mission? And how is Brethren mission
 similar 
to that of other denominations, and how is it different? "The conference  
will move toward claiming a missiology which is true to our Brethren heritage
 
and which reflects our denominational identity," said the brochure for the  
event. "Another Way of Sending," a review and study guide for Darrell L.
Guder's  
"Missional Church: A Vision for the Sending of the Church in North America," 
is  required reading for attendees.
 
Cost for one night and four meals is $147.00, cost for two nights and five  
meals is $185. One full continuing education unit is available at an extra
cost 
 of $10. Registration deadline is Oct. 19. For more information or 
registration  forms contact Jan Glass King at 888 411-4275 or
_jking_gb@brethren.org_ 
(mailto:jking_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 about 130,000 members across the United	
States and Puerto Rico, and has missions and sister churches in Brazil, the  
Dominican Republic, Haiti, and Nigeria.
 
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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
847-742-5100  ext. 260
_cbrumbaugh-cayford_gb@brethren.org_ 
(mailto:cbrumbaugh-cayford_gb@brethren.org) 
 
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