{"id":21985,"date":"2023-06-30T19:45:11","date_gmt":"2023-06-30T19:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/?p=21985"},"modified":"2023-06-30T19:45:19","modified_gmt":"2023-06-30T19:45:19","slug":"ballot-changes-are-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2023\/ballot-changes-are-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballot changes are announced for the 2023 Annual Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Conference office and the Nominating Committee of the Standing Committee of district delegates have announced changes to the ballot that will be presented to the 2023 Annual Conference of the Church of the Brethren. The event takes place next week in Cincinnati, Ohio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two updates have been announced:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Emmanuela Attelus<\/strong> has withdrawn from the ballot for a position on the Program and Arrangements Committee of Annual Conference. Standing Committee has replaced her with <strong>Carolyn Willoughby<\/strong> of Johnstown, Pa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Jonathan Prater<\/strong> has withdrawn from the ballot for a position as a Bethany Theological Seminary trustee representing clergy. Standing Committee has replaced him with <strong>Julia Wheeler<\/strong> of Pomona, Calif.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Find the full biographical ballot at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brethren.org\/ac2023\/business\/ballot\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"www.brethren.org\/ac2023\/business\/ballot\">www.brethren.org\/ac2023\/business\/ballot<\/a>.<\/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\/standing-with-haitian-church-family\/\">Standing with our Haitian church family: A pastoral message from the General Secretary<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/ddr-encourages-generous-support\/\">Deportation Defense Response Team encourages generous support for Haitian church members<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/wcc-season-of-creation\/\">World Council of Churches invites churches worldwide to celebrate the Season of Creation<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/brethren-bits-114\/\">Brethren bits<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/svmc-seeks-weird-wonderful-stories\/\">Susquehanna Valley Ministry Center seeks \u2018Weird and Wonderful Stories\u2019<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Conference office and the Nominating Committee of the Standing Committee of district delegates have announced changes to the ballot that will be presented to the 2023 Annual Conference of the Church of the Brethren. The event takes place next week in Cincinnati, Ohio.<\/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":[1258,2508,1921,3,2724,2725],"wf_post_folders":[],"class_list":["post-21985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-the-brethren-newsline","tag-annual-conference","tag-annual-conference-2023","tag-ballot","tag-church-of-the-brethren","tag-election","tag-updates"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21985","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=21985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21986,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21985\/revisions\/21986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21985"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=21985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}