{"id":10916,"date":"2016-03-17T00:00:01","date_gmt":"2016-03-17T00:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.brethren.org\/news\/?p=10916"},"modified":"2018-11-03T20:27:44","modified_gmt":"2018-11-03T20:27:44","slug":"applications-are-welcomed-for-bvs-orientations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2016\/applications-are-welcomed-for-bvs-orientations\/","title":{"rendered":"Applications Are Welcomed for Summer and Fall Brethren Volunteer Service Orientations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10917\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/10\/bvs-promotional-cards-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"301\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/10\/bvs-promotional-cards-3.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/10\/bvs-promotional-cards-3-300x100.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/10\/bvs-promotional-cards-3-768x257.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By Jocelyn Snyder<\/p>\n<p>Brethren Volunteer Service (BVS) is scheduled to run three more orientations in 2016, already having completed one orientation in February. BVS is a fulltime volunteer program that places volunteers in a one- to two-year assignment in the United States and locations around the world.<\/p>\n<p>The vision of BVS is \u201cSharing God\u2019s love through acts of service,\u201d with goals to advocate justice, work for peace, serve human needs, and care for creation. This ministry of\u00a0Brethren Volunteer Service\u00a0has been a major program in the Church of the Brethren denomination since 1948.<\/p>\n<p>The upcoming orientation dates are:<\/p>\n<p><strong>July 17-Aug. 5 for the Summer Unit 313,<\/strong> to be held at the Brethren Service Center in New Windsor, Md. The deadline for submitting applications for this unit is June 3.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Aug. 21-30 for the Brethren Revival Fellowship (BRF) Unit 314,<\/strong> to be held\u00a0 at the Brethren Service Center in New Windsor, Md. The deadline for submitting applications for this unit is July 8.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sept. 25-Oct. 14 for the Fall Unit 315,<\/strong> to be held in Fairfield, Pa. The deadline for submitting applications for this unit is Aug. 12.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about BVS contact at <a href=\"mailto:BVS@brethren.org\">BVS@brethren.org<\/a> or go to <a href=\"..\/..\/..\/preview!www.brethren.org\/bvs\">www.brethren.org\/bvs<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212; Jocelyn Snyder is orientation coordinator for Brethren Volunteer Service.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brethren Volunteer Service (BVS) is scheduled to run three more orientations in 2016, already having completed one orientation in February. BVS is a fulltime volunteer program that places volunteers in a one- to two-year assignment in the United States and locations around the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[68],"wf_post_folders":[],"class_list":["post-10916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-brethren-volunteer-service"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10918,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10916\/revisions\/10918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10916"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=10916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}