Olive Branch Interfaith Peace Partnership

at Church of the Brethren. Music: Taize

Preacher: Rev. J. Daryl Byler is a Mennonite minister, author and attorney. Currently living in Amman, Jordan, he is a Mennonite Central Committee Regional Representative for Jordan, Palestine, Iraq and Iran. He traveled to Iran in 2007, meeting with religious and political leaders.

Witness of War: Rev. Beth Pyles serves as a “reservist” on the Christian Peacemaker Team in Iraq. Twice she has been to southern Iraq and once to the Kurdish north, and will return to Iraq this spring. She is a part time Presbyterian pastor of McDowell Presbyterian Church and Headwaters Chapel in Virginia.

Church of the Brethren is located at 337 N. Carolina Ave. SE, Washington, D.C. (corner of 4th St.)