General Board to meet this weekend.

The Church of the Brethren General Board holds its spring meeting this weekend, beginning today with Executive Committee meetings and closing on Monday, March 12. The meetings take place at the Church of the Brethren General Offices in Elgin, Ill.

The board’s agenda includes an interim report from the committee studying ministry options at the Brethren Service Center in New Windsor, Md., as well as an update of the 1996 document "Ethics in Ministry Relations."

A special report to the board will be given by Brethren scholar Carl Bowman about the Brethren Member Profile study, "The Brethren at 300." A companion evening event features Martha Grace Reese, author of a new book about evangelism in mainline Protestant churches titled "Unbinding the Gospel" (available from Brethren Press, call 800-441-3712).

Annual Conference moderator Belita Mitchell will give a briefing about her just-completed trip to Nigeria, where she visited with Ekklesiyar Yan’uwa a Nigeria (EYN--the Church of the Brethren in Nigeria).

Also on the agenda are an emergency response report from the Gulf region, a report on the Global Food Crisis Fund, a report from the Brethren Witness/Washington Office’s Faith Expedition to Vietnam, an update on the work of the 300th Anniversary Committee, and financial reports, among other reports.

International guests at the meetings representing Brethren bodies in Brazil and Haiti will lead worship for the board: Marcos and Suely Inhauser of the Igreja da Irmandade (Church of the Brethren) in Brazil, and Ludovic St. Fleur, a leader of the Church of the Brethren mission in Haiti pastor of in Eglise des Freres Haitiens in Miami and the Orlando (Fla.) Haitian Fellowship.

For more information about the Church of the Brethren General Board visit www.brethren.org/genbd.

Source: 3/9/2007 Newsline Extra