NEWS

• Brethren Benefit Trust issues a report on its investment losses.
  
• Matching grant program for hunger relief gets off to a good start.
  
• Leadership Team works toward revisions of church documents.
  
• Outdoor Ministries Association holds annual meeting in Northwest.
  
• Brethren bits: Remembrance, personnel, jobs, Sudan prayer, more.

UPCOMING EVENTS

• On Earth Peace offers ‘Community Change for Congregations.’

FEATURE

• A reflection from the Congo: Standing on the wall as it crumbles.

REPORTS FROM ‘HEEDING GOD’S CALL: A GATHERING ON PEACE’

• Heeding God’s Call brings peace churches together for common effort.
  
• New faith-based initiative on gun violence is launched.
  
• A reflection on the spiritual discipline of bringing violence to light.
  
• NCC leader tells peace church gathering, ‘Peace is the message of the church.’