{"id":17778,"date":"2021-11-04T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-04T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/?p=17778"},"modified":"2021-11-05T00:43:23","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T00:43:23","slug":"brethren-volunteer-service-schedules-winter-orientation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2021\/brethren-volunteer-service-schedules-winter-orientation\/","title":{"rendered":"Brethren Volunteer Service schedules Winter Orientation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p><em>By Michael Brewer-Berres<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brethren Volunteer Service (BVS) will be hosting its Winter Orientation for Jan 18-Feb. 4, 2022. The volunteers in Unit 330 will gather at Camp Bethel in Fincastle, Va. This Winter Orientation takes the place of the Fall Orientation that did not occur in October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So far, six volunteers are expected to take part in the Winter Orientation. BVS is still accepting applications until Dec. 8, 2021. Apply at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brethren.org\/bvs\/volunteer\/apply\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"www.brethren.org\/bvs\/volunteer\/apply\">www.brethren.org\/bvs\/volunteer\/apply<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8212; Michael Brewer-Berres is orientation assistant for Brethren Volunteer Service, serving as a BVS volunteer.<\/em><\/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\/conference-business-for-2026\/\">Conference business includes resolutions on weapons transfer, care for immigrants and refugees, polity adjustments for licensed and commissioned ministers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/essential-services-of-ordinances\/\">Essential services of ordinances now available online as For All Who Minister prepares for reprinting<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/bdm-rebuilding-program-new-focus\/\">Brethren Disaster Ministries Rebuilding Program serves Hurricane Helene and Western Maryland storm survivors<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/shine-free-worship-resource\/\">Shine Everywhere free six-week worship series helps churches nurture faith at home<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/invitations-to-look-up\/\">Feature for Earth Month and Poetry Month: Invitations to look up, to seek abundant life<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/10\/home-page-image-for-bvs-logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8498\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brethren Volunteer Service (BVS) will be hosting its Winter Orientation for Jan 18-Feb. 4, 2022. The volunteers in Unit 330 will gather at Camp Bethel in Fincastle, Va. This Winter Orientation takes the place of the Fall Orientation that did not occur in October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8498,"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":[68,5,3,2260],"wf_post_folders":[],"class_list":["post-17778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-church-of-the-brethren-newsline","tag-brethren-volunteer-service","tag-bvs","tag-church-of-the-brethren","tag-winter-orientation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17778","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=17778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17779,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17778\/revisions\/17779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17778"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=17778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}