{"id":20348,"date":"2022-11-10T16:23:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T16:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/?p=20348"},"modified":"2022-11-12T00:01:41","modified_gmt":"2022-11-12T00:01:41","slug":"daniel-rudy-to-lead-virlina-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2022\/daniel-rudy-to-lead-virlina-district\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Rudy to serve as executive minister for Virlina District"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Church of the Brethren\u2019s Virlina District has called Daniel L. Rudy<\/strong> as district executive minister beginning on Feb. 6, 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The district has called Emma Jean Franklin Woodard<\/strong> to serve a five-week interim role between the retirement of David Shumate on Dec. 31 and the beginning of Rudy\u2019s service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rudy has pastored Ninth Street Church of the Brethren in Roanoke, Va., since 2011. He has been an instructor in the Christian Growth Institute of the Virlina and Shenandoah Districts. While serving on the Virlina District board, he has been a member of the district\u2019s New Church Development Committee, serving as chair for the last two years. He was the district\u2019s representative to the Virginia Council of Churches 2014-2016 and has chaired the Southeast Roanoke Christian Partnership Advisory Council for six years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the denominational level, he has been the pastor representative on the Pastoral Compensation and Benefits Advisory Committee of Annual Conference. During a five-year term, he gave leadership to the development of the new compensation and benefits tools for pastors recently approved by the Conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rudy holds a master of divinity degree from Bethany Theological Seminary and a bachelor\u2019s from Bridgewater (Va.) College, with a major in philosophy and religion and a minor in peace studies. He was ordained in Mid-Atlantic District in 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Woodard was associate district executive minister for more than 17 years and acting executive minister in 2016. For the last four years, she has been an interim pastor in various congregations in the district. Currently she co-pastors Bethany Church of the Brethren in Boones Mill, Va., and fills the role of \u201cpastor to pastors\u201d on behalf of the district board. She is an ordained minister and a graduate of the TRIM program of the Brethren Academy for Ministerial Leadership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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