NEWS

• Church of the Brethren is represented in prayer service with the Pope.
  
• ABC Board approves merger documents.
  
• Bethany Seminary trustees consider ‘core testimonies’ of Brethren.
  
• Growing Project in Maryland engages six Brethren churches.
  
• Womaen's Caucus leads discussion of future church at Bethany.
  
• Brethren representative helps plan UN remembrance of slave trade.
  
• Brethren bits: Remembrance, personnel, jobs, and much more.

MISSION UPDATES

• Mission Alive 2008 celebrates past and present mission work.
  
• Meetings are held on Haiti mission.
  
• General secretary calls new advisory group for mission program.

PERSONNEL NOTICES

• Reid resigns as academic dean at Bethany Theological Seminary.
  
• Mutual Aid Association leadership to change hands.
  
• Shari McCabe to work with Fellowship of Brethren Homes.