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The Church's Call To The church's call to NATIONAL OLDER ADULT CONFERENCE • SONG OF SONGS • 'OUR ENDANGERED VALUES' You Walked With Us and our lives are changed I was scared ... My home was destroyed ... I was hungry... and you and you and you gave me comfort gave me shelter gave me food A gentle hug and lots oflove from Disaster Lucedale, M S - Brethren volunteers Pakistan - Emergency food supplies Child Care volunteers comforted child were quick to repair this home and temporary housing continue survivors ofhurricanes and evacuees damaged by H urricane Katrina. to be distributed to Pakistani from the recent violence in Lebanon. Photo by Lutricia Zerfing earthquake survivors. Photo by Patricia Henry Photo by Paul Jeffrey ofACT International Thank you! Emergency Response/Service Ministries A ministry ofenc ouragement, restoration and service in a broken world. Your continued support is needed: Emergency Disaster Fund Church of the Brethren General Board 1451 Dundee Ave, Elgin, IL 60120 800-451-4407 or www.brethrendisasterresponse.org NOVEMBER 2006 VOL. 155 NO.10 WWW.BRETHREN.ORG a .. publish with the voice of thanksgiving1 and tell of all thy wondrous work/) (Psa. 26: 7b KJV). Editor: Walt Wiltschek Publisher: Wendy McFadden Associate Editor/News: Cheryl Brumbaugh-Cayford Promotions: Beth Burnette Subscriptions: Diane Stroyeck Design: The Concept Mill 8 The church's call to urban ministry Three stories this month look at the opportunities for witness amid skyscrapers and city centers. The first suggests that where one chooses to live can be a ministry in itself (p. 8); a second examines the "New Urbanism" movement and its potential for churches (p. 10); and a third looks at Hagerstown (Md.) Church of the Brethren's attempt to be faithful to its call in a downtown location (p. 12). 15 Speaking truth to power November brings Election Day, and thoughts about how Christians interact with our nation's political circles. Tom Wagner offers some reflections on our place in the polling place. 16 Shiny, happy people: National Older Adult Conference About 1,100 "seasoned servants" from the Church of the · DEPARTMENTS Brethren gathered in western North Carolina in early September. 2 From the Publisher 25 Youth Life There they found laughter, friends, challenge, and a call to "Walk 3 In Touch 26 Media Review in the Light." 6 Reflections 27 Letters 7 The Buzz 31 Turning Points 18 Song of Songs: The art of love News Editorial 20 32 Some Brethren may blush when they come to this book of love poetry tucked in the midst of the Hebrew scriptures. Christina Bucher digs deeper, suggesting that both literal and symbolic readings of the book can bring rich results. 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But later I real­ MESSENGER Subscriptions, at the ized I had no good reason for this idea. It was simply the above address. Allow at least five most challenging profession I could think of. The work that later found me had weeks for address change. to do with words, not formulas. Connect electronically: For a free Actually, after a little thought I realized that I'm not plagued with regret. My subscription to Newsline, the true calling is to do the kind of thing I'm doing now. "One dwells with God by Church of the Brethren e-mail news being faithful to one's nature. One crosses God by trying to be something one is report, write [email protected]. not," observes Quaker writer and teacher Parker Palmer in Let Your Life Speak. To view the official Church of the Vocation is rooted in the Latin for "voice," Palmer points out. "Vocation does Brethren website, go to not mean a goal that I pursue. It means a calling that I hear. Before I can tell my www.brethren.org. life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am." A free study guide for each issue One of the great gifts the church can offer is the opportunity for people to of MESSENGER is available on the seek their calling. Through Sunday school, summer camp, Brethren Volunteer site; go to keyword "MESSENGER" Service, the Brethren Academy and in countless other ways we can help peo­ and click on the study guide link. ple-especially our young people-discover what they are hearing when they listen to their own true selves. Perhaps that is possible for our congregations as well, and even our denomination. Very few of us will earn worldly acclaim. But all of us can receive God's gift of vocation. MESSENGER is the official publication of the Church of the Brethren. Member of th e Associated Church Pre ss . Biblical quotations; unless otherwise ind icated , are from the New Revised Standard Versio n. Copyright © November 2006, Church of the Brethren General Board. MESSENGER (IS SN 00 26-0355) is pu blished 11 times a year by Brethren Pr ess, Church of the Brethren Gene ral Board. Periodica ls postage paid at Elgin, Ill., and additional mai ling offices. POSTMASTER: Send address cha nges to MESSENGER, 1451 Dund ee Ave., El gin, IL 60120-1694. ~ Printed on recycled paper ~ (20% post co nsumer) Messenger November 2006 CONGREGATIONCLOSE-UP VBS ecumenism in Polo NORTHEAST Camp Harmony in Hooversville, Pa., held its 24th As Joyce Person, pastor of Polo (Ill.) Church of the Brethren, sat at her piano, her church's annual Brethren Heritage Festival sanctuary reverberated with the cheers of more than 200 children of all ages. The kids had on Sept. 16. The event, co-spon­ come from 13 churches in a town with less than 3,000 residents to hear a uniquely delivered sored by Western Pennsylvania gospel message. Doctrinal District, featured meals, booths, differences- if there were any entertainment, sales of col­ amidst the youthful congrega­ lectibles and antiques, quilt and - tion-were dissolved into the basket auctions, a pastor's bake­ laughter and zealous off, a pie-eating contest, and chil­ applause elicited by the antics dren's activities. performed on the "altar." The Polo Community SOUTHEAST The Virlina District Vacation Bible School, now in board has approved a project pro­ its 20th year, is the payoff of posal for the Lake Side Church, a more than 30 years of give­ new church plant to be located in and-take of the Polo Bedford County, Va. Over the Community Council of summer, two Hispanic/Latino new gi Churches. But more impres­ church project proposals were ~ sive to Nancy Taylor, the VBS 0 also approved. The New f chairwoman, were the 45 Vision Church of the Carolinas in ;:i VBS grads who, two weeks Calabash, N.C., was officially dis­ later, approached their vari­ solved. The final service was held ous pastors to talk about God and salvation. "A lot of these kids don't go to church but claim Sept. 17. affiliation," says Taylor, mother of two and member of the host Brethren congregation. With puppets, humor, and his own brand of "Gospel Magic," "Uncle" Tim Marsh wove MIDWEST Peggy Gish, a Church in biblical stories, moral exhortations, and religious songs that left the kids chanting their of the Brethren member who has approval as if at a homecoming football game. "It's a gift the Lord gave me," Marsh says. been working in Iraq with "You would not believe the stories that come back to me about how lives have been Christian Peacemaker Teams, changed. Kids get saved and then eventually they influence their parents to the point spoke at Highland Avenue Church where the parents start going to church." of the Brethren in Elgin, Ill., on "Tim keeps their attention," says Taylor, who teaches first- and second-grade classes Sept.
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