The Church of the Brethren National Youth Conference's Monday morning, July 19 worship service has been recorded and can be viewed on the NYC page of Bethany Webcast Central. National Youth Conference is currently taking place in Fort Collins, Colorado, with nearly 3,000 persons attending.

With experiences from the tactile to the technological, Bethany students and faculty offered many opportunities to interact with 2010 Annual Conference attendees.

Bethany Theological Seminary, the Church of the Brethren Annual Conference Office, and the Church of the Brethren are working together to offer live broadcasts of many Annual Conference events. All broadcasts will also be available as recordings unless noted otherwise.

Click here to go to the Annual Conference webcast page for more information and to view the webcasts.

Denise D. Kettering has been named as assistant professor of Brethren Studies. She will begin in this part-time position July 1, 2010.

On Saturday May 8 Bethany Theological Seminary celebrated its one hundred fifth commencement, awarding nine students master of divinity degrees and one student a certificate of achievement in theological studies.

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Bethany Theological Seminary will celebrate its 105th commencement on Saturday, May 8. The occasion will be marked with two observances. A ceremony for conferring degrees will take place in Bethany's Nicarry Chapel, 615 National Road West, at 10:00 a.m. Attendance is limited to graduates and guests by invitation. At 2:30 p.m., a public worship celebration planned by the graduates will be held at Nicarry Chapel.

The Brethren Academy for Ministerial Leadership, jointly funded by the Church of the Brethren and Bethany Theological Seminary, is offering a new series of Lilly Endowment Inc. funded educational experiences for Church of the Brethren pastors. New cohort groups will be started in August 2010 (Advanced Foundations for Church Leaders) and September 2010 (Vital Pastor).

The Bethany Theological Seminary board of trustees gathered at the Richmond, Indiana, campus for their semi-annual meeting March 26-28, 2010. The board addressed several significant items of business including a strategic plan, a proposal for a distributed education track for the master of arts degree, and a feasibility study for a fund-raising campaign.