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Disabilities Awareness Month Take These Worthy Causes to Church on Sunday Cov Kid Disabilities a io al & Families Awareness Do ot S bbath Today Month November 14 October As of February 1, 2003, more This October raise awareness of than 81,000 men, women and disability ministry by using materials children nationwide were Working families are eligible created by the Church and Persons waiting for organ transplants, for low-cost and free health with Disabilities Network, a ministry according to the U.S. Depart­ insurance through state and of ABC. Resources posted at ABC's ment of Health and Human federal programs. Help the website include: Services. Some 17 patients 8. 5 million uninsured kids in die each day while waiting. ■ Worship resources the United States obtain health Support organ and tissue care by talking about "Covering ■ Sunday school lessons donation by wearing donor pins Kids & Families," a nonprofit ■ Ideas for awareness raising and talking about National program funded by the Robert ■ Accessibility checklist Donor Sabbath during worship Woods Johnson Foundation, ■ Open Roof Award information this November 14. Donor pins in your church. To explore your ■ Funding suggestions and study /worship resources eligibility, call (877) KIDS-NOW are available from ABC: ■ Resources for adapting toll-free. Link to Covering Kids church rituals to those & Families online through ABC. with special needs. The Association of Brethren Caregivers encourages Association of congregations to honor these special emphases. Brethren Caregivers 1451 Dundee Ave., Elgin, Ill. 60120 (800) 323-8039 Resources are available at www.brethren.org/abc/. OCTOBER 2004 VOL.153 NO.9 WWW.BRETHREN.ORG u .. publish with the voice ef thanksgiving) and tell ef all thy wondrous work/) (Ps a. 26:7 b KJV) . Editor: Walt Wiltschek Associate Editor/News: Cheryl Brumbaugh-Cayford Publisher: Wendy McFadden Subscriptions: Diane Stroyeck Design: The Concept Mill ONTHECOVER Walt Wiltschek In County Election, American artist George Caleb Bingham depicted a typical Election Day scene in 19th-century Missouri. Bridgewater (Va.) College history and political science professor Steve Longenecker, a self-described "life-long political junkie," asks where Brethren would be in this picture, then and now. "Ideally," Longenecker notes, "Brethren political behavior has always reflected faith." (Saint Louis Art Museum I County Election (1852), oil on canvas by George Caleb Bingham) 8 The politics of another way Brethren have had an interesting relationship with electoral politics over the years, from shunning it entirely to having members run for public office. A historical journey shows some of the steps along the journey and carries the issue into the present. What should the Brethren approach to the ballot box look like today? 12 Sweet dreams: New mission in Brazil bears fruit Bit by bit, a dream of new Church of the Brethren mission in Brazil is coming alive. In less than four years, the church planting work has blossomed beyond realistic expectations. Why? As national director Marcos lnhauser had hoped, people there are hungry for a church that matches deeds to its words, and one that involves a community approach to understanding the scripture. Me rv Keeney 16 Does mission equal arrogance? When Greg and Karin Davidson Laszakovits accepted a call to become the denomination's US representatives to Brazil, many of their friends and family thought they were crazy. They them­ selves struggled with the word "mission." What does it mean to "do mission" in other cultures, and to do it with integrity? 18 Fanning faith in the midst of pain Hospital chaplains are often on the front lines of intense min­ istry. They deal with trauma, sickness, and death, often with families they don't know well. This Religion News Service - piece looks at these chaplains' unique ministry of healing. A sidebar examines one Brethren's call to chaplaincy as ministry. DEPARTMENTS 2 From the Publisher 25 Youth Life 3 In Touch 26 Media Review 6 Reflections 27 Letters 7 The Buzz 31 Turning Points 20 News 32 Editorial Messenger October 2004 FROM THE PUBLISHER How to reach us MESSENGER 1451 Dundee Avenue Elgin, IL 60120 Subscriptions: [email protected] Phone: 847-742-5100 ne thing I like about fall is its promise of new beginnings. You Fax: 847-742-6103 lose a little of that feeling of expectation once you graduate, but Advertising: those0 connected with school-as students or teachers or parents- can't miss the messengerads [email protected] sense of a clean slate, a fresh start. There's the prospect of Phone: 800-323 -8039 new ideas, new ways of thinking, new connections. Fax: 84 7- 742-1407 I thought of that as I wandered the halls for the tradi­ tional back-to-school open houses. At the middle school, Editorial: we parents searched for classroom numbers like tentative [email protected] seventh-graders on the first day of school. We pored over Phone: 800-323-8039 ext. 263 assignments covering the walls, scooted past glass cages Fax: 847-742-6103 with exotic creatures, and listened dutifully to lots of speeches about rules and expectations. Subscription rates: $ 16.50 individual rate Out of all the comments I heard from the teachers, one $13.50 church group plan WENDY McFADDEN stuck out. As the science teacher previewed the wide range Publisher $ 13 .50 gift subscriptions of the sciences that he would cover, he told us this: What these eighth graders learn this year is all that they will ever learn in school If you move, clip address label about two areas of science, earth science and astronomy (unless they choose to and send with new address to study them in college). These disciplines never come back in high school. MESSENGER Subscriptions, at the If t hat's true also for those already out of school, then most of us are process­ above address. Allow at least five ing the latest developments in space with an eighth-grade understanding of the weeks for address change. topic-assuming we can remember back that far. Could that be true at church, too? Plenty of today's churchgoers slacked off of Connect electronically: For a free subscription to Sunday school during their teen years, stopped altogether in the transitional Newsline, the Church years after that, and visit today only if the particular elective catches their atten­ of the Brethren e-mail news tion. From an educational standpoint, how many of us are functioning out of an report, write cobnews@aol. com. eighth-grade understanding of our faith? Here at Brethren Press, where we're aware that most congregations focus their To view the official, Church of the Christian education efforts on children, we've been pleasantly surprised to hear Brethren website, go to that some of those most caught up in our latest children's book, The Meanest Man www.brethren.org. in Patrick County, are the adults who bought it for their children and grandchil­ dren. Though Frank Ramirez wrote for children 8 to 12, adults are finding that they A free study guide for each issue can't put down his collection of stories about ordinary Brethren who did extraordi­ of MESSENGER is available on the site; go to keyword "MESSENGER" nary things. (How many of us had ever heard of Evelyn Trostle? But her story and click on the study guide link. shows that the horrors brought to us in headlines have not changed all that much, nor has the willingness of Brethren to stay with the children.) It's not curriculum, but it's full of education. One hopes this isn't the last brush that our eighth graders have with Brethren history and convictions, but MESSENGER is the official publicati on or the Chu rch rather stimulates a life-long desire to learn more about the faith that has moti­ or the Brethren. Entered as periodical postage matter vated 300 years of unlikely heroes. And if it's the first brush our adults have with Aug. 20, 1918, under Act or Congress or Oct. 17, 19 I 7. Fil ing date , Nov. I, 1984. Memb er or the Brethren history, perhaps they'll see in a new way why stories of our spiritual Associated Church Press. Subscriber to Rel igion forebears are relevant to faith in the 21 st century. News Service & Ecume ni ca l Press Service. Biblical quotations, unless oth erwise indica ted, are rrorn the New Revised Standard Vers ion. MESS ENGER is published 11 times a year by Brethren Press, Church or th e Brethren Gene ral Board . Periodical postage paid at El gin, Ill. , and at additional mai ling omce, October 2004. Copyright 2004 , Church or the Brethren General Boa rd. ISS N 0026 -0355. Pos tmaster : Send address cha nges to ME SSENG ER, 1451 Dundee Ave. , Elgin, IL 60120. Printed on recycled paper (20% post consumer) Messenger October 2004 INTOUCH AROUND THE DENOMINATION Updates and highlights from the Church of the Brethren districts Atlantic Northeast: Camp Swatara fall area clergy meetings on the topic of Southern Pennsylvania: Cliff Kindy of (Bethel, Pa.) is in the midst of a "Pathway "Natural Church Development." Sessions Christian Peacemaker Teams, who has for Tomorrow" $600,000 financial cam­ are planned at five sites Oct. 26-28. been on several Middle East delegations, paign. It will fund improvements to sever­ spoke about CPT's work in Iraq Aug. 4 at al camp facilities. Northern Plains: District executive Connie Hanover Church of the Brethren. Burkholder will lead this year's district Atlantic Southeast: The district has women's retreat, Oct. 8-9 at Camp Pine Lake Southern Plains: About 80 people, been hard-hit by a pair of hurricanes, first in Eldora, Iowa.
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