Annual Conference 2004 ballot is announced.

The ballot for the Church of the Brethren Annual Conference, July 3-7 in Charleston, W.Va., is headed by nominees Ronald D. Beachley and Myrna Long Wheeler, for the position of moderator-elect.

Beachley, of Maple Spring Church of the Brethren, Hollsopple, Pa., is district executive minister of Western Pennsylvania District. Myrna Long Wheeler, of Pomona (Calif.) Fellowship, serves as chaplain at Brethren Hillcrest Homes in La Verne, Calif.

On the ballot for Conference-related committees are Joan Lawrence Daggett, of Sangerville Church of the Brethren, Bridgewater, Va., and Martha Roudebush, Trinity Church of the Brethren, Blountville, Tenn., for the Annual Conference Council; June Ellen (Forsyth) Switzer, Community Church of the Brethren, Hutchinson, Kan., and Joanna Wave Willoughby, Hope Church of the Brethren, Freeport, Mich., for the Program and Arrangements Committee; Joe A. Detrick, Codorus Church of the Brethren, Loganville, Pa., and Herman Kauffman, Union Center Church of the Brethren, Nappanee, Ind., for the Pastoral Compensation and Benefits Advisory Committee; and James O. Eikenberry, Wilmington (Del.) Church of the Brethren, and Robert C. Johansen, Crest Manor Church of the Brethren, South Bend, Ind., for the Committee on Interchurch Relations.

Nominees to boards of Conference-related agencies include General Board at-large nominees Michael Benner, of the yoked Waterside and Koontz congregations in Pennsylvania, and J. Colleen Michael, Wenatchee (Wash.) Brethren-Baptist Church United.

John A. Braun, Olympic View Community Church of the Brethren, Seattle, Wash., and J. Kenneth Kreider, Elizabethtown (Pa.) Church of the Brethren, are nominated to the board of Brethren Benefit Trust; Diane Harden, Miami (Fla.) First Church of the Brethren, and Allegra Hess, York Center Church of the Brethren, Lombard, Ill., to the Association of Brethren Caregivers board; David B. Eller, Elizabethtown (Pa.) Church of the Brethren, and Jonathan Frye, Monitor Church of the Brethren, McPherson, Kan., for Bethany Theological Seminary trustee representing the colleges; and David Hendricks, Prince of Peace Church of the Brethren, South Bend, Ind., and Robbie Miller, Bridgewater (Va.) Church of the Brethren, to the On Earth Peace board.

Source: Newsline 3/05/2004
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