Two Brethren churches in California are engaged in a new outreach, called 

Brethren Brew Pub

. As The Brethren Evangelist mentioned in the Spring 2017 issue, Manteca’s 

Zao Church

 and 

Northgate Community Church

 have been successfully pairing home-brewed beer tastings with small-group style devotions.

The gatherings take place every other Thursday night, and they’ve been catching quite a bit of attention. Recently, two different news stations have covered the outreach, and Brethren Brew Pub continues to bring people into community, and into relationship with Jesus.



It is no mystery that this type of outreach will cause some Brethren to raise their eyebrows. Some are wildly in favor of this type of outreach, and others are not. Our encouragement would be to engage in the conversation. Reach out to Zao or Northgate, and have a conversation! Brethren Brew Pub has created a statement that answers many questions, how they guard against abuse, etc. 

View the statement here