Brethren Volunteer Service Unit 340 completes orientation

The members of BVS Unit 340: (back row, from left) Leokadia Rossmanith, Silas Benevento Zahner, Noah Elledge, and Hope Gandy; (front, from left) Caroline Uekermann, Zippora Pötschke, Rabea Elisabet Degand, Mia Benjamin, and Sonja Queck. Photo courtesy of BVS

The members of Brethren Volunteer Service (BVS) Unit 340 have completed orientation, held at Camp Emmaus in Mount Morris, Ill., and have begun work at their project placements. Find out more about BVS and how to volunteer.

The volunteers, their home congregations or hometowns, and project sites:

Mia Benjamin of Antioch Church of the Brethren and Boones Mill, Va., is serving at SnowCap Community Charities in Portland, Ore.

Rabea Elisabet Degand of Ennepetal, Germany; Noah Elledge of Paderborn, Germany; and Zippora Pötschke of Radebuel, Germany, are serving at La Puente Home in Alamosa, Colo.

Hope Gandy of Spring Run Church of the Brethren and McVeytown, Pa., is serving at Camp Koinonia in Cle Elum, Wash.

Sonja Queck of Leipzig, Germany, is serving at Innisfree Village in Crozet, Va.

Leokadia Rossmanith of Dresden, Germany, and Caroline Uekermann of Braunschweig, Germany, are serving at Project PLASE in Baltimore, Md.

Silas Benevento Zahner of Harrisonburg, Va., is serving at Fundación Brethren y Unida, Ecuador.

— Virginia Rendler, interim co-director of BVS and coordinator of Long Term Service, contributed this information to Newsline.

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