{"id":16459,"date":"2021-03-05T13:15:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T13:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/?p=16459"},"modified":"2021-03-05T19:17:29","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T19:17:29","slug":"churches-navigating-pandemic-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2021\/churches-navigating-pandemic-challenges\/","title":{"rendered":"Webinar to focus on ways churches are navigating pandemic challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>By Nancy Sollenberger Heishman<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An upcoming webinar on Friday, March 26, at 7:30 p.m. (Eastern time) will focus on the ways congregations are navigating the challenges of gathering together and some of the creativity of their initiatives in the midst of the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The panel, hosted by Stan Dueck of the Church of the Brethren\u2019s Discipleship Ministries, will include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8212; <strong>Gary Benesh and Wallace Cole<\/strong>, interim district executives of Southeastern District;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8212; <strong>Daniel and Tabitha Hartman Rudy<\/strong>, pastors of Ninth Street Roanoke (Va.) Church of the Brethren and Smith Mountain Lake Community Church of the Brethren in Wirtz, Va., respectively; and<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8212; <strong>Jennifer Keeney Scarr<\/strong>, pastor of Trotwood (Ohio) Church of the Brethren.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sponsoring staff include Stan Dueck and Josh Brockway, co-coordinators of Discipleship Ministries; Nancy S. Heishman, director of the Office of Ministry; and Roy Winter, executive director of Service Ministries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Register at <a href=\"https:\/\/zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/tJwsce6vqTktE93VSB1vtE805nNN1C3I4t9B\">https:\/\/zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/tJwsce6vqTktE93VSB1vtE805nNN1C3I4t9B<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>&#8212; Nancy Sollenberger Heishman is director of the Church of the Brethren\u2019s Office of Ministry.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2011\u2011\u2011\u2011\u2011\u2011\u2011\u2011\u2011\u2011<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Find more Church of the Brethren news:<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__list wp-block-latest-posts\"><li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/six-awards-from-associated-church-press\/\">Messenger and Communications receive six awards from the Associated Church Press<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/conscientious-objection-event-for-adults\/\">Virtual event for adults will follow on conscientious objection sessions for young people<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/world-refugee-day-service\/\">Deportation Defense Response invites participation in World Refugee Day Ecumenical Service<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/brethren-bits-111\/\">Brethren bits<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/jeff-thomson-to-direct-bdm\/\">Jeff Thomson hired to direct Brethren Disaster Ministries<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An upcoming webinar on Friday, March 26, at 7:30 p.m. (Eastern time) will focus on the ways congregations are navigating the challenges of gathering together and some of the creativity of their initiatives in the midst of the pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"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":[1703],"tags":[3,1682,1657,1822,1304,407,1691],"wf_post_folders":[],"class_list":["post-16459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-the-brethren-newsline","tag-church-of-the-brethren","tag-congregations","tag-covid-19","tag-pandemic","tag-training","tag-webcast","tag-webinars"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16459","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16460,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16459\/revisions\/16460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16459"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=16459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}