Additional presenters are added to the NOAC 2004 schedule.

Additional presenters for the National Older Adult Conference (NOAC) Sept. 6-10 in Lake Junaluska, N.C., are keynote presenter Deforia Lane, ventriloquist Steve Engle, and hymn-leader Wil Nolen. The event is sponsored by the Older Adult Ministry of the Association of Brethren Caregivers (ABC).

Lane, a keynote presenter in place of L. Robert Keck, who is unable to attend, serves as associate director of the Ireland Cancer Center and director of Music Therapy at University Hospitals of Cleveland, Ireland Cancer Center, and Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital. Lane was a keynote presenter for the Caring Ministries Assembly last year in Bridgewater, Va.

Engle and Nolen will provide evening entertainment. Engle, who has created personalities for a family of puppets based on his observations of real-life characters, will perform Tuesday. Nolen will lead a celebration of hymns Thursday. He is president of Brethren Benefit Trust and has conducted the choir of Highland Avenue Church of the Brethren in Elgin, lll., for 34 years. Both have performed at past NOACs.

NOAC registration materials are now available from Church of the Brethren congregations, pastors, and districts, as well as online at www.brethren.org/abc/. Housing registrations will be accepted beginning Apr. 1. Registrations for the conference are to be sent to ABC, with registrations for housing and meals to go to the Lake Junaluska Assembly directly. For more information about NOAC call ABC at 800-323-8039. For information about housing and meals call Lake Junaluska Assembly at 800-222-4930.

Source: Newsline 3/05/2004
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