Retreat focuses on Brethren in mission in the 21st century.

A retreat on "Another Way of Sending: Brethren in Mission in the 21st Century" will be held Nov. 2-3 at the Rising Phoenix Retreat Center in Flintstone, Md., sponsored by the General Board's Congregational Life Team for Area One. Wally Landes, pastor of Palmyra (Pa.) Church of the Brethren, will be the leader, working from his material published in the new Church of the Brethren resource, "Growing Faithful Disciples."

The retreat will focus on the questions, How do we understand the concept of mission? In what ways is your congregation in mission? In America's pluralistic setting, how do we engage in mission? And how is Brethren mission similar to that of other denominations, and how is it different? "The conference will move toward claiming a missiology which is true to our Brethren heritage and which reflects our denominational identity," said the brochure for the event. "Another Way of Sending," a review and study guide for Darrell L. Guder's "Missional Church: A Vision for the Sending of the Church in North America," is required reading for attendees.

Cost for one night and four meals is $147.00, cost for two nights and five meals is $185. One full continuing education unit is available at an extra cost of $10. Registration deadline is Oct. 19. For more information or registration forms contact Jan Glass King at 888 411-4275 or jking_gb@brethren.org.

Source: 8/3/2005 Newsline
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