{"id":5074,"date":"2014-12-17T08:00:56","date_gmt":"2014-12-17T13:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brethren.org\/?p=5074"},"modified":"2014-12-17T08:00:56","modified_gmt":"2014-12-17T13:00:56","slug":"ebrethren-12-17-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/2014\/12\/17\/ebrethren-12-17-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Great things in 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"From<\/a>
From all of the staff, volunteers, and Mission and Ministry
Board members of the Church of the Brethren,
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
Photo by Cheryl Brumbaugh-Cayford<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Thank you for praying, serving, giving to support the Church of the Brethren in 2014. There are many things that we were able to do together:<\/p>\n

2,390 students, advisers, staff, and volunteers attended National Youth Conference<\/a> (and 19 from international Brethren groups).<\/p>\n

123 volunteers served 248,720 hours at Brethren Volunteer Service\u00a0<\/a>projects.<\/p>\n

9 Ministry Summer Service<\/a> interns explored their vocations in ministry placements across the country.<\/p>\n

Volunteers maintained a Brethren presence in 9 different countries<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Over 377 deacons and church leaders attended 9 deacon training<\/a> events.<\/p>\n

19 BVS volunteers<\/a> served at international projects, and 11 international students served in the US.<\/p>\n

98 individuals participated in the Church Planting Conference<\/a>.<\/p>\n

152 Global Mission Advocates<\/a> are now connected to the network.<\/p>\n

165 individuals attended 4\u00a0Intercultural Ministry<\/a> related events.<\/p>\n

140 participants served at 8\u00a0workcamps<\/a>.<\/p>\n

83 congregations began or continued participating in the Vital Ministry Journey<\/a>.<\/p>\n

62 individuals represented 13 districts at Young Adult Conference<\/a>.<\/p>\n

3 Mission and Ministry Board<\/a> meetings were held and 3 new members were welcomed.<\/p>\n

684 congregations financially supported the Church of the Brethren.<\/p>\n

151 donors gave to the core ministries<\/a> of the Church of the Brethren for the first time.<\/p>\n

And so much more!<\/p>\n

Thank you for generously giving to your church. Your faithful support is inspiring, and ensures that the many life-changing, loving-giving ministries of the Church of the Brethren will continue into the future.<\/p>\n

If you are excited about or have been blessed by the ministries of the Church of the Brethren, support them at www.brethren.org\/give<\/a> .<\/p>\n

<\/em>(Read this issue of eBrethren<\/a>)\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thank you for praying, serving, giving to support the Church of the Brethren in 2014. There are many things that we were able to do together: 2,390 students, advisers, staff, and volunteers attended National Youth Conference (and 19 from international Brethren groups). 123 volunteers served 248,720 hours at Brethren Volunteer Service\u00a0projects. 9 Ministry Summer Service<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[153,234,273,281,357,505,620,625,753,758,793,843,1188,1228,1240],"class_list":["post-5074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ebrethren","tag-brethren-volunteer-service","tag-church-planting-conference","tag-congregational-life-ministries","tag-core-ministries","tag-ebrethren","tag-global-mission-and-service","tag-intercultural-ministries","tag-international-mission","tag-ministry-summer-service","tag-mission-and-ministry-board","tag-national-youth-conference","tag-office-of-ministry","tag-vital-ministry-journey","tag-workcamps","tag-young-adult-conference"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}