Brethren Volunteer Service Unit 336 completes orientation

Unit 336 of Brethren Volunteer Service (BVS) recently completed orientation and the volunteers have begun work at project sites across the United States and in Japan.

Following are their names, congregations or hometowns, and project placements.

June Scheidemann, from Bielefeld, Germany, will serve at La Puente Home, Alamosa, Colo.

Ace Anteby, from Brooklyn, N.Y., will serve at SnowCap Food Pantry, Portland, Ore.

Lisa Abele, from Hamburg, Germany, will serve at the San Diego (Calif.) Peace Campus, which is related to San Diego First Church of the Brethren

Pierre Schatz, from Strasbourg, France, will serve at La Puente Home, Alamosa, Colo.

Keke Phooko, from Mohale’s Hoek, Lesotho, will serve with Brethren Disaster Ministries in Kentucky

Lorena Nordmann, from Nordenham, Niedersachsen, Germany, will serve at Abode Services, Fremont, Calif.

The members of BVS Unit 336: (front row, from left) June Scheidemann, Ace Anteby, Lisa Abele, Pierre Schatz; (middle row) Keke Phooko, Lorena Nordmann, Hannah Nelson, Megan Roth, Alyson Heckeroth; (back row) Justine Eckert, Sue and Brad Cox, Elizabeth Long, and Magdalena Müller. Not pictured: Wed Naji.

Hannah Nelson, of La Verne (Calif.) Church of the Brethren, will serve with the Church of the Brethren’s Office of Peacebuilding and Policy in Washington, D.C.

Megan Roth, from Wichita, Kan., will serve at Christ House in Washington, D.C.

Alyson Heckeroth, of Messiah Church of the Brethren in Kansas City, Mo., will serve at Highland Park Elementary School, Roanoke, Va.

Justine Eckert, of Harrisburg (Pa.) First Church of the Brethren, will serve at Camp Mardela, Denton, Md.

Brad and Sue Cox, of Lynchburg (Va.) Church of the Brethren, will serve at the World Friendship Center, Hiroshima, Japan

Elizabeth Long, of Eel River Church of the Brethren in Silver Lake, Ind., placement TBD

Magdalena Müller, from Schleiz, Thuringia, Germany, will serve at WATER in Washington, D.C.

Wed Naji, from Bonn, Germany, will serve at WATER in Washington, DC.

–– Virginia Rendler, interim volunteer coordinator for Brethren Volunteer Service, contributed this report. Find out more about BVS at www.brethren.org/bvs.

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