August 9-12, 2018 PROGRAM SCHEDULE Winona Lake, Indiana THURSDAY, AUGUST 9 FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, CONT. 9:00am-2:00pm Registration 7:00pm-8:30pm Worship at West Manchester Old German Baptist Brethren Church, North Manchester 2:00pm-5:30pm Religious Intersections in the World OPENING of Alexander Mack, Jeff Bach (CoB) Message from Merle Flory (OGBBNC) PLENARY Cultural Intersections and the ‘Two 8:30pm Ice cream and fellowship following service SESSIONS kingdoms’, Glen Landes (OGBBCNC) Religious Intersections and the ‘other’ in Brethren History, Dale Stoffer (BC) SATURDAY, AUGUST 11 6:00pm Dinner provided on location 8:30am-Noon Old German Baptist Perspectives on Witness and Mission, Sam Funkhouser (OGBBNC) 7:30pm-8:30pm Worship at Winona Lake Grace Brethren MORNING Church, Winona Lake PLENARY Brethren and the Ethics of Social Justice, SESSIONS Denise Kettering-Lane (CoB) Message from Gary Kochheiser (CGBCI) Brethren Witness, the Military, and the State, 8:30pm Ice cream and fellowship following service Josh Brockway (CoB) Noon-1:15pm Lunch provided on location FRIDAY, AUGUST 10 1:15pm-4:45pm Tour of Brethren and local history sites 8:30am-Noon The Brethren-evangelical relationship AFTERNOON MORNING in the era of Charles G. Finney, Stephen SESSIONS (CoB) PLENARY Longenecker SESSIONS The Brethren-evangelical relationship in 1:15pm-2:15pm Politics, Patriarchy, and Preaching: Grace the era of Billy Sunday, Jason Barnhart (BC) CONCURRENT Brethren Women Missionaries in the Central African Republic, Nathan Daugherty (FGBC) The Brethren-evangelical relationship in the SESSIONS era of Billy Graham, William Kostlevy (CoB) Have the Brethren Traded Love Pietism for Anabaptist Discipline? Mack & Hochmann in Noon-1:15pm Lunch provided on location Contemporary Conversations, Scott Holland (CoB) 1:15pm-4:45pm Tour of Brethren and local history sites 2:15pm-3:15pm Pressing the Boundaries of Identity: Church AFTERNOON of the Brethren Self-Understandings Over SESSIONS CONCURRENT SESSIONS Time, Carl Bowman (CoB) Brethren Preservation Efforts, PANEL 1:15pm-2:15pm What’s in a Name? Reflecting on Nomenclature and Identity, PANEL CONCURRENT 3:45pm-4:45pm The Need for Christian-Muslim Dialogue On SESSIONS Brethren and Civil War Memory, Aaron PLENARY Peace, Musa Mambula (Ekklesiyar Yan’uwa a Jerviss (BC) SESSION Nigeria/Church of the Brethren in Nigeria) Responding to War with Service and Song: 2:15pm-3:15pm 5:00pm-6:15pm Dinner provided on location Reflections from the Life of Perry Huffaker, CONCURRENT Karen Garrett (CoB) SESSIONS 7:00pm-8:30pm Worship at New Paris Church of the Brethren Crosscurrents in the Life and Ministry of Message from Jared Burkholder (FGBC) Jacob Cassel, Charles Lobato Johnson (FGBC) 8:30pm Ice cream and fellowship following service 3:45pm-4:45pm Clean Water as a Catalyst for Christian- Muslim Reconciliation in War-torn Central PLENARY SUNDAY, AUGUST 12 SESSION African Republic, Jim Hocking (FGBC) Worship at a Brethren church not of one’s usual 5:00pm-6:15pm Dinner provided on location Sunday attendance. (A list of area Brethren churches will be provided to attendees.) CHARLES LOBATO JOHNSON MERLE FLORY and his wife Judy, GLEN LANDES is a minister and STEPHEN LONGENECKER serves as a Project Specialist for were called to the ministry in elder serving near Dayton, Ohio, is the Edwin L. Turner Encompass World Partners and 1976, and are from Ellensburg, in the Salem congregation of the Distinguished Professor the Campus Coordinator at Grace Washington. Merle serves as Old German Baptist Brethren of History at Bridgewater Church, Town Center Campus an Assistant Director for the Church, New Conference. College. His research interests in Marietta, GA. He holds an Macedonian Teaching Ministry, He has a deep interest in are in American Religious undergraduate degree in History based in Chiang Mai, Thailand. His Brethren history and has led History, and his most recent from Grace College, an MA in passion is teaching and inspiring many Anabaptist and Brethren book is Gettysburg Religion: History from the University of native church leaders to reach history tours in Europe, as Refinement, Diversity, and Race Kentucky, and an M.Div from their own unreached people well as leading “Early Brethren in the Antebellum and Civil War Candler School of Theology at groups with the Gospel, by Footsteps in this Country” tours Border North (2014). Emory University. Shaped by holding Leadership Conferences since 1991. He is a retired farm His current project explores his Brazilian-American Grace throughout SE Asia. boy from Ohio who enjoys Southern religion during the Brethren heritage, he is pursuing serving the Lord and teaching Reconstruction Period. licensure in the Fellowship of His Word. Grace Brethren Churches. JIM HOCKING grew up on the DENISE KETTERING-LANE CARL BOWMAN serves as Director JOSHUA BROCKWAY serves mission field in the Central African serves as Assistant Professor of Survey Research at the Institute the Church of the Brethren as Republic. He completed an MDiv of Brethren Studies at Bethany for Advanced Studies in Culture denominational staff for spiritual life from Grace Theological Seminary Theological Seminary. She at the University of Virginia. He and discipleship where he oversees and subsequently spent 20 years as received a BA in Religion from has directed social surveys of a network of spiritual directors. He a Grace Brethren missionary in the Ashland University in Ohio and American public culture and among also prepares resources and leads CAR with his family. More recently a Masters in Theological Studies them are two benchmark national workshops on stewardship, spiritual he has started a non-profit ministry from Candler School of Theology surveys of cultural trends within practices, Brethren identity, and called Water for Good, which is at Emory University in Atlanta, the Church of the Brethren. Prior worship. Joshua earned his Master drilling and maintaining wells in Georgia. Denise completed a to his current position, he was for of Arts in Theology from Bethany villages across the CAR, promoting PhD in Religious Studies at The many years a Professor of Sociology Theological Seminary, his Master post-war reconciliation efforts, and University of Iowa in May 2009. She at Bridgewater College. Among of Divinity from Candler School of producing gospel radio broadcasts. has served as a research fellow at his published works are Brethren Theology, and Ph.D. in Early Church The water for good teams now care both the University of Iowa and at Society: The Cultural Transformation History from The Catholic University for the water pumps of over 600,000 the Institute for European History of a “Peculiar People” (Johns of America. He lives in Elgin, Illinois people, providing them with clean in Mainz, Germany. Her research Hopkins) and Portrait of a People: with his wife and four children. water on a daily basis. focuses on gender issues within The Church of the Brethren at 300 German Pietism. (Brethren Press). DALE R. STOFFER is an ordained SAM FUNKHOUSER resides with WILLIAM C. KOSTLEVY holds AARON JERVISS is currently a Brethren elder, was the founding his family in Franklin County, degrees from Asbury College, Bethany lecturer of history at Johnson pastor of Smoky Row Brethren Virginia, and is a member Theological Seminary, Marquette University-Tennessee, located just University, and the University of Church in Columbus, Ohio, and of the Old German Baptist outside Knoxville, Tennessee. He Notre Dame (Ph.D.). He is Director is a graduate of Ashland University is Professor Emeritus and former Brethren, New Conference. of the Brethren Historical Library and (1992), Ashland Theological Academic Dean at Ashland He is a graduate of Princeton Archives, Elgin, Illinois. He has served Seminary (2004), and earned a Theological Seminary. He is Theological Seminary (M.Div.), as Professor of History and Political Ph.D. in history from the University the author of Background and where he wrote a thesis on Science at Tabor College and as archivist of Tennessee in 2013 with a Development of Brethren Doctrines, the theology of early English- and special collections librarian for dissertation entitled “Christian which recently appeared in a second language Brethren hymnody. Asbury Theological Seminary and Fuller revised edition, and of A Gleam of Theological Seminary. His published Heroes and Blood-Stained Villains: Sam currently serves as the work includes Bethany Theological The Civil War in Historic Peace Shining Hope, a history of Ashland Director of Risk Management College/University and Ashland Seminary: A Centennial History, Holy Church Memory, 1865-1915”, a for Family Preservation Services Jumpers: Evangelicals and Radicals look at the Civil War memory of Theological Seminary. He has edited of Virginia, a community-based in Progressive Era America (Oxford the three historic peace churches several books and has written mental health provider. University Press, 2010), and Holiness (Quakers, Mennonites, and the numerous articles on Brethren history Manuscripts: A Guide to Sources German Baptist Brethren). and doctrine. He serves on the Documenting the Wesleyan Holiness board of Brethren Encyclopedia, Inc. Movement in the United States and Canada (Scarecrow Press, 1994). JASON BARNHART is the Director of Brethren Research and KAREN GARRETT retired from public school teaching in 2004 Resourcing for the Brethren Church National Office in Ashland, with 30 years teaching experience. She is currently employed Ohio. Jason has over a decade of pastoral experience in part-time as managing editor for the journal Brethren Life congregations in Ohio. He served for three years (2014-2017) as & Thought, and as coordinator of assessment for Bethany the University Chaplain of Ashland University in Ashland. Jason Theological Seminary. She holds an M.Ed. from Wright State was co-editor of A Brethren Witness for the 21st Century (2014) University and an MA from Bethany Theological Seminary. She and co-edited a primer for the work, A Brethren Witness Primer is a volunteer at the Brethren Heritage Center, Brookville, OH.