{"id":18206,"date":"2022-02-09T21:50:41","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T21:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/?p=18206"},"modified":"2022-02-09T21:51:11","modified_gmt":"2022-02-09T21:51:11","slug":"bvs-winter-unit-completes-orientation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2022\/bvs-winter-unit-completes-orientation\/","title":{"rendered":"Brethren Volunteer Service winter unit completes orientation, volunteers go to project sites"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brethren Volunteer Service (BVS) Unit 330, the winter 2022 unit, has completed orientation, and the newly trained volunteers have begun work at their project sites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Shown here are the new volunteers, from left:<\/em> <strong>Johannes Stitz<\/strong> of Westphalia, Germany, who will serve at SnowCap Food Pantry in Fairview, Ore.; <strong>Marvin Blenkle<\/strong> of Berlin, Germany, who will serve with Harrisburg (Pa.) First Church of the Brethren and bcmPEACE; <strong>Tate Johnson<\/strong> of McPherson, Kan., and McPherson Church of the Brethren, who will serve at Ferncliff Camp and Conference Center in Little Rock, Ark.; and <strong>Florian Wesseler<\/strong> of Westphalia Germany, who will serve at SnowCap Food Pantry in Fairview, Ore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The winter orientation was held at Camp Bethel near Fincastle, Va., from Jan. 18 to Feb. 4. The new BVSers and staff visited Troutville Church of the Brethren and Daleville Church of the Brethren. Two workdays were held at the Botetourt Worship and Outreach Center. One workday was held at Camp Bethel.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/BVSUnit330-600px.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/BVSUnit330-600px.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/BVSUnit330-600px-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/BVSUnit330-600px-560x420.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Find out more about Brethren Volunteer Service at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brethren.org\/bvs\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"www.brethren.org\/bvs\">www.brethren.org\/bvs<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The next orientations will be held July 31-Aug. 19<\/strong> at Camp Wilbur Stover, New Meadows, Idaho (applications are due June 19, with flexibility), <strong>and Sept. 18-Oct. 7<\/strong> at Camp Brethren Heights, Rodney, Mich. (applications are due Aug. 7, with flexibility). Find the application form to take part in BVS 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 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>&#8212; Pauline Liu, volunteer coordinator for Brethren Volunteer Service, contributed to this report.<\/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 is-layout-flow wp-block-latest-posts-is-layout-flow\"><li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/steele-to-conclude-service-aug-2028\/\">David Steele to conclude service as Church of the Brethren General Secretary in August 2028<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/steele-concluira-su-servicio-agosto-2028\/\">David Steele concluir\u00e1 su servicio como Secretario General de la Iglesia de los Hermanos en agosto de 2028<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/steele-pral-fini-sevis-li-out-2028\/\">David Steele pral fini s\u00e8vis li k\u00f2m Sekret\u00e8 Jeneral Legliz Fr\u00e8 yo nan mwa Out 2028<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/brethren-volunteer-service-unit-340\/\">Brethren Volunteer Service Unit 340 completes orientation<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/la-unidad-340-del-bvs\/\">La Unidad 340 del Servicio Voluntario de los Hermanos completa la orientaci\u00f3n.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brethren Volunteer Service (BVS) Unit 330, the winter 2022 unit, has completed orientation, and the newly trained volunteers have begun work at their project sites. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18207,"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":[68,5,2308,3,1946,2260],"wf_post_folders":[],"class_list":["post-18206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-church-of-the-brethren-newsline","tag-brethren-volunteer-service","tag-bvs","tag-bvs-unit-330","tag-church-of-the-brethren","tag-volunteers","tag-winter-orientation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18206","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=18206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18208,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18206\/revisions\/18208"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18206"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=18206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}