- The National Coalition for a Peace Tax Fund (NCPTF) seeks a fulltime executive director and a fulltime development director. Current executive director Marian Franz is stepping down after a tenure spanning 22 years of service to the Peace Tax Fund Campaign. She will continue as a lobbyist for the Peace Tax Fund on a part-time basis. The NCPTF Board of Directors seeks applicants to fill the positions. Working with a small, dedicated staff, the new "head of organization" will be seasoned and skilled in communication, supervision, coordination, organizational development, and networking. At its spring meetings, the NCPTF Board created a new position of development director. The board seeks a seasoned fundraiser to help expand the base of supporters. The successful candidate will have significant experience in development work with small nonprofit organizations, a commitment to the goals of the Peace Tax Fund Campaign, will be able to work independently, and will be able to spend at least some time in the Washington, D.C., office. Initially this is a four-month interim appointment, with the expectation that secure funding will allow continuation and expansion of the position. For more information see www.peacetaxfund.org or call 888-732-2382.
- Do you have lots questions about how to effectively live faith in our interconnected world? Global Mission Partnerships of the General Board is encouraging participation in "Developing Hearts that Yearn for Justice: Ecumenical Theological Reflection in a Third World Setting for Clergy and Lay Church Workers," Jan. 23-26, 2006 in Tijuana, Mexico. More information can be found at http://bordermatters.net/DHYJ/DHYJ2_Synodflyer.pdf.
- The registration deadline has been extended to Nov. 1 for "Nourishing the Soul," the Church of the Brethren clergywomen's retreat being held Nov. 14-17 at Timber-Lee Christian Center in East Troy, Wis. Jan Richardson will be the keynote speaker. Inquiries and registrations should be sent to Margie Paris in the General Board's Ministry Office at 1451 Dundee Ave., Elgin, IL 60120. She can be reached at 800-323-8039 ext. 207 or mparis_gb@brethren.org. Cost including registration, room, and board is $200. Full-time seminary and TRIM students can attend for $125.
- Manassas (Va.) Church of the Brethren is celebrating its 110th anniversary. The church is planning a Homecoming for Oct. 9, featuring Sunday school with former pastors and ministerial leaders; morning worship at 11 a.m. led by Chris Bowman, a former moderator of Annual Conference; a carry-in meal for lunch; and afternoon "stations" for children and adults to learn about the congregation's history including a hymn sing, craft, visual display, and church fashion show. For more information call the church at 703-368-4783 or see www.manassasbrethren.org.
- Bakersfield (Calif.) Community Church of the Brethren is celebrating "three-quarters of a century serving God" in October. A Memorial Service and Brunch will be held Saturday, Oct. 22, and an Anniversary Celebration with a potluck and afternoon program will be held Sunday, Oct. 23. See www.bccob.org or call 661-323-1011.
- Six districts in the Church of the Brethren are holding conferences the weekend of Oct. 7-9: Atlantic Northeast, Oct. 7-8, at Elizabethtown (Pa.) College, moderated by Larry O'Neill; Atlantic Southeast, Oct. 7-8, at Orlando (Fla.) Community Church, moderator by Kevin King; Mid-Atlantic, Oct. 7-8, at Frederick (Md.) Church of the Brethren, moderator by John Thompson; Southern Ohio, Oct. 7-8, at Oakland (Ohio) Church of the Brethren, moderated by David Shetler; Pacific Southwest, Oct. 7-9, at Modesto (Calif.) Church of the Brethren, moderated by R. Jan Thompson; and Middle Pennsylvania, Oct. 7-8, at Stone Church of the Brethren in Huntingdon, Pa., moderated by Linda Banaszak.
- The University of La Verne (ULV), Calif., is holding an Alumni Weekend Homecoming Oct. 14-16. The weekend will start off with an All Alumni Dinner Dance Oct. 14, at the Sheraton Suites Fairplex in Pomona, honoring distinguished alumni and professors including Marlin L. Heckman, Jeannette Vagnozzi, Wayne Butterbaugh, Anthony Granillo, and Robert T. Neher. Dwight Hanawalt will lead the first dance. Another professor to be recognized at a pre-dinner reception is Thomas Harvey. Weekend events include a 5K Community Fun Run/Walk, a Soccer Team Reunion, an Old Town La Verne Harvest Festival, a ULV Fair, a Theater Department Performance Festival and Comedy Improv, and homecoming games: football against Cal Lutheran, men's soccer against Caltech, and women's soccer against Cal State East Bay. Class reunions also will take place. The weekend will close with a ULV Recognition Day and worship service at La Verne Church of the Brethren on Sunday Oct. 16, and a Golden Alumni Reception honoring the classes of 1935, 1945 and 1955, hosted by Brethren Hillcrest Homes. For more information contact Beth Elmore, Alumni Relations director, at 909-593-3511 ext. 4683.
- Manchester College, North Manchester, Ind., is welcoming a Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence to campus. Jorge Ivan Bula Escobar of Bogota, Colombia, will share expertise on globalization and human rights and Latin American politics, economy, and development. He holds degrees from the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium and the University of Manchester in Great Britain, and has served as a vice-dean of Universidad Nacional de Colombia in Bogota, where he was academic coordinator of the Ph.D. program in economic sciences. He will teach a course on the consequences and outcomes of globalization on Latin America, and a seminar on the conditions behind Latin American human rights problems. He also is available as a speaker to groups, organizations, schools, and churches. To arrange a speaking engagement, contact associate dean Julie Garber at 260-982-5026 or jlgarber@manchester.edu. The Fulbright Scholar's appointment is partially funded by Plowshares, a collaboration of Indiana's three historic peace church colleges: Manchester, Goshen, and Earlham.
- "Images: Proclaiming Stewardship--Voice and Vision" is the theme for the Ecumenical Stewardship Center's 2005 Leadership Seminar, scheduled Nov. 29-Dec. 2 in Daytona Beach, Fla. This year the seminar focuses on generosity and will provide opportunities to see and hear from young adult professionals that are practicing stewardship in their daily lives. Each year outstanding artistic performers are part of the schedule, and afternoons are generally free for sabbath time or discussion groups related to stewardship issues. For further information and registration go to www.stewardshipresources.org. Click on "Events," then "Leadership Seminar" for a menu that includes registration, schedule, and local arrangements. To join a new weblog intended to generate dialogue about images of stewardship in preparation for the seminar, go to www.stewardshipresources.org/blog/Login.aspx. User ID is bloggers and password is lstalk.
- The Association of Brethren Caregivers (ABC) is publicizing a "Not Dead Yet and TASH Disability Rights Rally" at the US Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 5 from 9 a.m. to noon. ABC has a Disabilities Ministry. There is a limited amount of funding to support the travel expenses of activists with disabilities. Contact Diane Coleman (ndycoleman@aol.com) to apply for travel funds. The Supreme Court has set Oct. 5 as the date to hear oral arguments in an important case to members of the disability community: the Gonzales v Oregon Case related to the Oregon "Death With Dignity Act." In a friend of the Court brief filed on behalf of Not Dead Yet and other disabilities organizations, disability rights attorney Max Lapertosa wrote that, "If a state overtly excluded people with `terminal' disabilities from suicide prevention laws and programs, it would undoubtedly violate federal civil rights laws such as the Americans with Disabilities Act.... Yet that is precisely the design and effect of the Oregon assisted-suicide law." For more information see www.notdeadyet.org or www.tash.org.
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