{"id":13876,"date":"2019-03-21T19:33:28","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T19:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.brethren.org\/news\/?p=13876"},"modified":"2019-07-19T19:35:32","modified_gmt":"2019-07-19T19:35:32","slug":"bvs-volunteers-complete-first-fast-track-orientation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2019\/bvs-volunteers-complete-first-fast-track-orientation\/","title":{"rendered":"BVS volunteers complete first \u2018fast track\u2019 orientation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"417\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/members-of-the-first-bvs.jpg\" alt=\"Members of the first BVS fast-track orientation Unit 321.1 \" class=\"wp-image-13869\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/members-of-the-first-bvs.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/members-of-the-first-bvs-300x250.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption>Members of the first BVS fast-track orientation Unit 321.1 (from left to right) Cory Alwais, Mycal Alwais, and Alyssa Parker. Photo courtesy of BVS<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>A new venture of Brethren Volunteer Service (BVS) is a \u201cfast track\u201d for orienting and placing volunteers. The arrangement allows for quicker filling of openings at projects and earlier placement of volunteers between regularly scheduled orientation units. Of the initial three fast-track volunteers, two filled assignments in Northern Ireland and one in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>Cory (Smithtown, N.Y.) and Mycal Alwais of Community of Joy Church of the Brethren in Salisbury, Md., are serving with incredABLE in Richhill, Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>Alyssa Parker of Midland (Va.) Church of the Brethren is serving with Harrisburg (Pa.) First Church of the Brethren.<\/p>\n<p>For more about Brethren Volunteer Service go to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brethren.org\/bvs\">www.brethren.org\/bvs<\/a>\u00a0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new venture of Brethren Volunteer Service (BVS) is a \u201cfast track\u201d for orienting and placing volunteers. The arrangement allows for quicker filling of openings at projects and earlier placement of volunteers between regularly scheduled orientation units. Of the initial three fast-track volunteers, two filled assignments in Northern Ireland and one in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":13869,"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-13876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-brethren-volunteer-service"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13876","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13877,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13876\/revisions\/13877"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13876"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=13876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}