{"id":21310,"date":"2023-03-02T11:45:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-02T11:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/?p=21310"},"modified":"2023-03-02T20:30:17","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T20:30:17","slug":"wiltschek-begins-additional-bvs-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2023\/wiltschek-begins-additional-bvs-role\/","title":{"rendered":"Walt Wiltschek to begin additional part-time position with Brethren Volunteer Service"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Walt Wiltschek has been hired by the Church of the Brethren as part-time office coordinator for Brethren Volunteer Service (BVS), beginning on March 7. He continues as half-time district executive minister for Illinois and Wisconsin District, and also continues his role on the editorial team for <em>Messenger <\/em>magazine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wiltschek is a graduate of York College (Pa.) with a bachelor of science in Secondary Education\/Mathematics; Northern Illinois University with a master&#8217;s degree in Communications\/Journalism; and Lancaster (Pa.) Theological Seminary with a master of arts in Religion with a concentration in Education and Youth Ministry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prior to taking on the leadership of Illinois and Wisconsin District, he was the pastor at Easton (Md.) Church of the Brethren. He has worked previously on the denominational staff, serving as director of News Services and editor of <em>Messenger<\/em> from 2000 to 2010. He also has been campus pastor at Manchester University in North Manchester, Ind.<\/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\/discernment-and-calling-an-appeal\/\">Discernment and calling: An appeal for nominations for the Annual Conference ballot<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/disenman-ak-apel-yon-apel\/\">Dis\u00e8nman ak ap\u00e8l: Yon ap\u00e8l pou nominasyon pou bilten v\u00f2t Konferans Any\u00e8l la<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/discernimiento-y-vocacion-convocatoria\/\">Discernimiento y vocaci\u00f3n: Convocatoria para la presentaci\u00f3n de candidaturas para la votaci\u00f3n de la Conferencia Anual.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/help-shape-intergenerational-resources\/\">Help shape resources for intergenerational ministry: An invitation from Brethren Press<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/ayude-a-dar-forma-a-los-recursos\/\">Ayude a dar forma a los recursos para el ministerio intergeneracional: Una invitaci\u00f3n de Brethren Press.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walt Wiltschek has been hired by the Church of the Brethren as part-time office coordinator for Brethren Volunteer Service (BVS), beginning on March 7. He continues as district executive minister for Illinois and Wisconsin District, and also continues his role on the editorial team for Messenger magazine.<\/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":[68,5,3,1774,1416],"wf_post_folders":[],"class_list":["post-21310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-the-brethren-newsline","tag-brethren-volunteer-service","tag-bvs","tag-church-of-the-brethren","tag-personnel","tag-walt-wiltschek"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21310","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=21310"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21316,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21310\/revisions\/21316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21310"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=21310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}