{"id":12280,"date":"2016-12-16T00:00:12","date_gmt":"2016-12-16T00:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.brethren.org\/news\/?p=12280"},"modified":"2018-11-03T20:27:16","modified_gmt":"2018-11-03T20:27:16","slug":"brethren-bits-for-dec-16-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2016\/brethren-bits-for-dec-16-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Brethren Bits for December 16, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Night Circle of Crest Manor Church of the Brethren in South Bend, Ind., made 95 Christmas stockings for a church in the community that serves those in need. Each year, gifts and a stocking full of goodies are provided to those who may not have any other Christmas celebration. The whole congregation at Crest Manor got involved, not only sewing the stockings but giving cash donations that allowed for the purchase of numerous stocking \u201cstuffers.\u201d<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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— Randall (Randy) Lee Yoder<\/strong> begins March 1, 2017 as interim district executive minister for Atlantic Northeast District. A Manchester College and Bethany Theological Seminary graduate, he has been a minister in the Church of the Brethren for over 50 years. He has served as a pastor, a professor, a director of Insurance Services for Brethren Benefit Trust, and also was district executive minister in Middle Pennsylvania District for 20 years. In 2009, he served as interim district executive for Pacific Southwest District. In Atlantic Northeast District, Yoder will serve in a three-quarter time position, for up to one year. He lives in Huntingdon, Pa.<\/p>\n

— The Church of the Brethren has hired Chasity Gunn of Elgin, Ill.,<\/strong> as conference and event assistant for Congregational Life Ministries. Most recently she has been an assistant manager at a Dick\u2019s Sporting Goods store, and a substitute teacher in the U-46 School District where she often has worked in dual-language classrooms instructing students in Spanish. Her past work experience includes a graduate teaching assistantship at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minn.; a position as summer production assistant for the \u201cWaterstone Literary Journal\u201d and service on the journal\u2019s Poetry Editorial Board; and a job as education reporter for the \u201cDaily News Journal\u201d of Murfreesboro, Tenn. Her work with Congregational Life Ministries will support staff in conference and program promotion, logistics, and registration.<\/p>\n

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