{"id":14753,"date":"2020-03-20T17:48:40","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T17:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.brethren.org\/news\/?p=14753"},"modified":"2020-06-04T17:50:01","modified_gmt":"2020-06-04T17:50:01","slug":"bvs-continuing-to-support-volunteers-through-covid-19-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2020\/bvs-continuing-to-support-volunteers-through-covid-19-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"BVS continuing to support volunteers through COVID-19 crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"197\" height=\"161\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/06\/bvs-logo-text.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14739\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>By Emily Tyler<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brethren Volunteer Service (BVS) has been working with its project partners and volunteers around the world to encourage caution and safety during this COVID-19 crisis. Its mid-year retreat for domestic volunteers that was scheduled for March 23-27 has been cancelled and, instead, volunteers will gather virtually for a day of retreat activities and reflecting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier this week, the German government requested that EIRENE, a partner organization of BVS for more than 40 years, pull all of their volunteers back to Germany. EIRENE sends about 10 volunteers to the US per year through BVS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BVS continues to be in close communication with its volunteers who are serving domestically and internationally, some of whom are choosing to return home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212;&nbsp;<em>Emily Tyler is director of Brethren Volunteer Service. Find out more about BVS at&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brethren.org\/bvs\">www.brethren.org\/bvs<\/a>&nbsp;.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Emily Tyler Brethren Volunteer Service (BVS) has been working with its project partners and volunteers around the world to encourage caution and safety during this COVID-19 crisis. Its mid-year retreat for domestic volunteers that was scheduled for March 23-27 has been cancelled and, instead, volunteers will gather virtually for a day of retreat activities<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":14739,"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":[68,1656,1657],"wf_post_folders":[],"class_list":["post-14753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-brethren-volunteer-service","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14753","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=14753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14754,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14753\/revisions\/14754"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14753"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=14753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}