{"id":18947,"date":"2022-06-23T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-23T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/?p=18947"},"modified":"2022-06-23T19:56:11","modified_gmt":"2022-06-23T19:56:11","slug":"gene-hagenberger-retires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2022\/gene-hagenberger-retires\/","title":{"rendered":"Gene Hagenberger retires as executive minister for Mid-Atlantic District"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gene Hagenberger retires as Mid-Atlantic District executive minister on July 15, with compensation continuing through Nov. 30. He has served in leadership of the district for more than 13 years, beginning in the role on Aug. 1, 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During his tenure, Hagenberger served in various roles on the Council of District Executives related to gifts discernment and executive training and development. Most recently he has been the council\u2019s representative to the Pastoral Compensation and Benefits Advisory Committee of the Church of the Brethren Annual Conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Licensed by Burnham Church of the Brethren in Middle Pennsylvania District in 1975, he was ordained by Pipe Creek Church of the Brethren in Mid-Atlantic District in 1985. Prior to his role as district executive, he pastored congregations in Virlina, Middle Pennsylvania, and Mid-Atlantic Districts, most recently at the Easton congregation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He holds degrees from Elizabethtown (Pa.) College, Drew Theological Seminary, and Western Maryland College, and a certificate in Theology and Ministry from Princeton Theological Seminary. In addition, he holds an executive certificate in Religious Fundraising from the Lake Institute on Faith and Giving of the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy.<\/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-volunteers-support-kerrville\/\">CDS volunteers support \u2018Faith and Fellowship\u2019 memorial event in Kerrville<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/pastors-ordained-in-south-sudan\/\">Pastors ordained for Church of the Brethren ministry in South Sudan<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/speakers-for-nyc-2026\/\">The speakers for National Youth Conference 2026<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/brethren-and-the-declaration\/\">Brethren and the Declaration of Independence: Denise Kettering-Lane presents an equipping session<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/god-of-grace-and-god-of-glory\/\">\u2018God of grace and God of glory\u2019: A call to worship<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gene Hagenberger retires as Mid-Atlantic District executive minister on July 15, with compensation continuing through Nov. 30. He has served in leadership of the district for more than 13 years, beginning in the role on Aug. 1, 2009.<\/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":[3,1882,882,1358,1774,1897],"wf_post_folders":[],"class_list":["post-18947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-the-brethren-newsline","tag-church-of-the-brethren","tag-district-executive","tag-gene-hagenberger","tag-mid-atlantic-district","tag-personnel","tag-retirement"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18947","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=18947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18948,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18947\/revisions\/18948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18947"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=18947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}