Newsline: October 25, 2013

NEWS

• Mission and Ministry Board adopts 2014 budget, revision of Ministerial Leadership Polity, recommendation on equitable representation.
• Getting the best value for your Medicare Part D dollars.
• Webinar on short-term mission trips takes place Nov. 5.
• Booz, Cassell, and Hosler named as consultants for the next year.

PREVIEW OF THE WORLD COUNCIL OF CHURCHES 10th ASSEMBLY

• WCC general secretary speaks about hopes for the council’s 10th assembly.
• Divided Korean peninsula is steeped in decades of pain and sadness.
• Christian activists pray and fast to protest nuclear dangers in Busan and beyond.
• Peace Train takes a journey towards reunification of the Koreas.
• ‘Thursdays in Black’ shows zero tolerance for violence against women.
• The WCC Assembly by the numbers.

BRETHREN BITS

• Brethren bits: Remembering Ruth Baugher, Clergy Women’s Retreat, Shane Claiborne at Bridgewater, Herb Smith study trip to China, district workshops and conferences, more.