Applying our Discipleship

Members in Ministry:

Nancy Jones is a Church of the Brethren Minister.

Frank Leaman was installed as Pastor of the West Shore Church of the Brethren on January 30, 2000.

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

Rev. Vernon Stinebaugh and Rev. David A. Yingling, retired Church of the Brethren Ministers, occasionally serve.

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

Hospital Hospitality providing short term housing for family members of York Hospital patients

New Windsor Service Center

Peace Emphases

Legislative Issues

Boy Scout Troop 20

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:

Association of Brethren Caregivers

Bethany Theological Seminary

Global Mission Partnerships

Disaster Ministries

Brethren Volunteer Service

On Earth Peace Assembly

Six Brethren Colleges and University

Updated 8/25/07