Applying our Discipleship

Members in Ministry:

Sarah Kovacs is teaching children in Ghana through June 2012 in a self-supporting ministry.

Ryan Henry was installed as a Licensed Minister at the First Church of the Brethren on Sunday, May 10, 2009 by Rev. Melinda Carlson of the Pennsylvania Southern District of PA Ministries Commission.

Nancy Jones is a Church of the Brethren Minister.

Frank Leaman retired as pastor of the West Shore COB in August, 2011 and plans to continue in ministry.

John Layman, a former member of First Church, is the Pastor of the Hempfield Church of the Brethren.

Rev. David A. Yingling is a retired Church of the Brethren Minister.

Supports through its Local Ministries:

Food Pantry Program

Our Daily Bread - one day per month support of a multi-church/civic organizational program.

Cookie Ministry

Blanket Program

Various church members periodically assist in Church of the Brethren Disaster Relief Projects.

York Habitat for Humanity

A Refugee Program

York County Council of Churches

A Child Development Center

Supports Bell Socialization Services Center

New Windsor Service Center

Peace Emphases

Legislative Issues

Supports through its District Ministries:

( Southern District of PA )

Brook Lane Health Care Services

Children's Aid Society with centers in Chambersburg, New Oxford and York. The Frances Leiter Center in Chambersburg is the CAS center for quality, child-centered counseling in Franklin County and surrounding areas.

The New Oxford Center provides quality child-centered counseling to families of Adams and York County.

The Lehman Center in York is the only Crisis Nursery in Pennsylvania, and provides emergency child care for families under stress and for children at risk of abuse and/or neglect.

Camp Eder is a place where persons can learn to know their Creator through Bible-based programs in a loving, caring environment.

Cross Keys Village - The Brethren Home Community

Elizabethtown College

FFCM - Fruitbelt Farmworker Christian Ministry.

District Disaster Relief Ministry

Annual Brethren Disaster Relief Auction cooperatively with the North Atlantic District

Pennsylvania Council of Churches

Pennsylvania Council on Alcohol Problems

TURF - The United Relief Fund (Disaster Relief within the Southern Pennsylvania District)

West Shore Trucker and Traveler Ministry

Supports through its Denominational Ministries:

Bethany Theological Seminary

Church of the Brethren Mission Partnerships

Brethren Volunteer Service

On Earth Peace Assembly

Six Brethren Colleges and University

McPherson College

Manchester College

Juniata College

La Verne College

Bridgewater College

Elizabethtown College

Bethany Seminary