Newsline: February 21, 2013

NEWS

• Beam and Steele head up Annual Conference ballot for 2013.
• Ten receive Church of the Brethren nursing scholarships in 2012.
• Executive Committee of denominational board holds January meeting.
• ‘Going to the Garden’ grants go to five churches so far.
• National Youth Cabinet meets, announces theme for NYC 2014.

UPCOMING EVENTS

• Brethren Academy issues update on spring and summer courses.
• Upcoming college speakers include Nobel peace laureate, popular religion scholar.

FEATURES

• Proposals to reduce gun violence: Church representative attends Senate Subcommittee hearing.
• ‘A trying moment in Nigeria’: An EYN leader tallies deaths and churches lost to violence.

BRETHREN BITS

• Pope’s resignation, employee notices, jobs, former BVSers remembered, CT Project for CDS, NOAC registration, Brethren-related efforts against gun violence, and more.