{"id":18434,"date":"2022-03-17T07:10:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-17T07:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/?p=18434"},"modified":"2022-03-17T19:12:31","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T19:12:31","slug":"connie-sandman-retires-from-bbt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2022\/connie-sandman-retires-from-bbt\/","title":{"rendered":"Connie Sandman retires from 40-year career at Brethren Benefit Trust"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After a 40-year career working at Brethren Benefit Trust (BBT), Connie Sandman has announced her retirement as of April 30, with her last working day scheduled for April 22. Sandman holds the record for longest tenured employee, said a release from BBT.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She began at BBT on April 26, 1982, pre-dating the current name of the organization. Her first role involved serving as a claims processor for Brethren Insurance Services, progressing to lead claims processor in 1995. She later transitioned from insurance to become the information services technician. In 2004, she became a member services representative for the Church of the Brethren Credit Union. For the last 11 years, she has served as Insurance Plans specialist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BBT board members and staff will celebrate Sandman\u2019s retirement on April 22 as part of a BBT Board meeting.<\/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\/cds-deploys-volunteers-to-support-families-affected-by-washington-wildfires\/\">Children&#8217;s Disaster Services deploys volunteers to support families affected by Washington wildfires<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/bdm-begins-new-rebuilding-project-in-yancey-county-n-c\/\">Brethren Disaster Ministries begins new rebuilding project in Yancey County, N.C.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/fall-2026-scripture-practice-cohort\/\">Part-Time Pastor; Full-Time Church program offers fall 2026 Scripture Practice cohort<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/john-fillmore-named-director-of-ministry\/\">John Fillmore named director of ministry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/standing-with-haitian-church-family\/\">Standing with our Haitian church family: A pastoral message from the General Secretary<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a 40-year career working at Brethren Benefit Trust (BBT), Connie Sandman has announced her retirement as of April 30, with her last working day scheduled for April 22. Sandman holds the record for longest tenured employee, said a release from BBT.<\/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":[1270,160,3,1774],"wf_post_folders":[],"class_list":["post-18434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-the-brethren-newsline","tag-bbt","tag-brethren-benefit-trust","tag-church-of-the-brethren","tag-personnel"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18434","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=18434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18435,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18434\/revisions\/18435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18434"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=18434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}