{"id":13855,"date":"2019-02-08T15:46:21","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T15:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.brethren.org\/news\/?p=13855"},"modified":"2019-07-19T15:48:42","modified_gmt":"2019-07-19T15:48:42","slug":"joe-a-detrick-and-david-sollenberger-top-annual-conference-ballot-for-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2019\/joe-a-detrick-and-david-sollenberger-top-annual-conference-ballot-for-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe A. Detrick and David Sollenberger top Annual Conference ballot for 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"2019<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The ballot to be presented to the 2019 Annual Conference of the Church of the Brethren has been released. Topping the ballot are two nominees for moderator-elect: Joe A. Detrick and David Sollenberger. Other offices to be filled by election are positions on the Program and Arrangements Committee, the Mission and Ministry Board, and the boards of Bethany Seminary, Brethren Benefit Trust, and On Earth Peace. Elections will be held during the Conference on July 3-7 in Greensboro, N.C.<\/p>\n

Joe A. Detrick<\/strong>\u00a0of Seven Valleys, Pa., is an ordained minister and a retired district executive who recently served as interim director for the Office of Ministry. He was district executive minister in Southern Pennsylvania District for 13 years, 1998-2011, and interim district executive for Pacific Southwest District for a year, 2014-2015. He has served two pastorates, in Indiana and in Pennsylvania, totaling 16 years of pastoral ministry. From 1983-88 he was on the denominational staff as coordinator of orientation for Brethren Volunteer Service (BVS).<\/p>\n

David Sollenberger<\/strong>\u00a0of Annville, Pa., is a videographer who has documented decades of conferences of the denomination, including Annual Conference and National Youth Conference, where he has been a speaker, and is known at National Older Adult Conference for the humorous NOAC News. He has produced numerous documentaries about Church of the Brethren ministries and history, has traveled to missions and sisters churches in Nigeria and South Sudan among others. He has served on the former General Board and on the Vision Interpretation and Implementation Committee for the Church of the Brethren Vision Statement 2012-2020.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Following are nominees for other positions to be filled by election in 2019, listed by position:<\/em><\/p>\n

Program and Arrangements Committee<\/p>\n

Carol Hipps Elmore<\/strong>\u00a0of Salem, Va.<\/p>\n

Seth Hendricks<\/strong>\u00a0of North Manchester, Ind.<\/p>\n

Mission and Ministry Board<\/p>\n

Area 4<\/em><\/p>\n

Jess Hoffert<\/strong>\u00a0of Inver Grove Heights, Minn.<\/p>\n

J. Roger Schrock<\/strong>\u00a0of McPherson, Kan.<\/p>\n

Area 5<\/em><\/p>\n

Lauren Seganos Cohen<\/strong>\u00a0of Pasadena, Calif.<\/p>\n

Don Morrison<\/strong>\u00a0of Nampa, Idaho<\/p>\n

Bethany Seminary board of trustees<\/p>\n

Representing the Brethren colleges<\/em><\/p>\n

Kurt DeGoede<\/strong>\u00a0of Mount Joy, Pa.<\/p>\n

Monica Rice<\/strong>\u00a0of McPherson, Kan.<\/p>\n

Brethren Benefit Trust board of directors<\/p>\n

Skill set: investment skills<\/em><\/p>\n

Audrey Myer<\/strong>\u00a0of Elizabethtown, Pa.<\/p>\n

Derrick Petry<\/strong>\u00a0of Beavercreek, Ohio<\/p>\n

On Earth Peace board<\/p>\n

Catherine K. Carson<\/strong>\u00a0of Fairfax, Va.<\/p>\n

Carla L. Gillespie<\/strong>\u00a0of Tipp City, Ohio<\/p>\n

For more information about Annual Conference, go to\u00a0www.brethren.org\/ac<\/a>\u00a0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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