{"id":16668,"date":"2021-04-16T19:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/?p=16668"},"modified":"2021-04-17T00:38:35","modified_gmt":"2021-04-17T00:38:35","slug":"western-plains-district-transition-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2021\/western-plains-district-transition-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Western Plains District announces transition team"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Church of the Brethren\u2019s Western Plains District has named a transition team to serve during the period of securing interim leadership and pursuing the search process for hiring a new district executive minister.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, the district\u2019s Leadership Team has named Joanna Davidson Smith, Western Plains administrative assistant, as the district\u2019s representative to the Council of District Executives while interim plans are being developed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The transition team that will guide the process working in collaboration with the Office of Ministry includes:<br>&#8212; <strong>Gail Erisman Valeta<\/strong>, district moderator<br>&#8212; <strong>Sarah Mason<\/strong>, district moderator-elect<br>&#8212; <strong>John Hoffman<\/strong>, Outdoor Ministries Team co-chair<br>&#8212; <strong>Leslie Kendall<\/strong>, Communications Team chair<br>&#8212; <strong>Dave Smith<\/strong>, Stewards Team chair<br>&#8212; <strong>Ken Frantz<\/strong>, Leadership Team chair<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Communications with Western Plains District may be directed to Ken Frantz at <a href=\"mailto:frantz@haxtuntel.net\">frantz@haxtuntel.net<\/a> or 970-580-3565; or Joanna Davidson Smith at <a href=\"mailto:office@wpcob.org\">office@wpcob.org<\/a> or 620-241-4240.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2011\u2011\u2011\u2011\u2011\u2011\u2011\u2011\u2011\u2011<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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\/pastoral-care-in-focus-in-honduras\/\">Pastoral care in focus on a trip to Honduras to support deported church members<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/learnings-from-l-e-a-d-conference\/\">\u2018What got us here won\u2019t get us there\u2019: Learnings from the L.E.A.D. Conference<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/wfc-hiroshima-seeks-volunteers\/\">World Friendship Center in Hiroshima seeks volunteer co-directors through Brethren Volunteer Service<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/virtual-delegate-briefing-may-27\/\">Annual Conference officers to host virtual delegate briefing on May 27<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of the Brethren\u2019s Western Plains District has named a transition team to serve during the period of securing interim leadership and pursuing the search process for hiring a new district executive minister.<\/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":[3,1511,1561,1774,939],"wf_post_folders":[],"class_list":["post-16668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-the-brethren-newsline","tag-church-of-the-brethren","tag-districts","tag-office-of-ministry","tag-personnel","tag-western-plains-district"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16668","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=16668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16669,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16668\/revisions\/16669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16668"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=16668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}