{"id":22902,"date":"2023-10-18T19:25:12","date_gmt":"2023-10-18T19:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/?p=22902"},"modified":"2023-10-18T19:26:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T19:26:00","slug":"otero-resigns-from-puerto-rico-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2023\/otero-resigns-from-puerto-rico-district\/","title":{"rendered":"Jos\u00e9 Calleja Otero resigns from leadership of Puerto Rico District"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jos\u00e9 Calleja Otero has resigned as executive minister for the Church of the Brethren\u2019s Puerto Rico District, effective Dec. 6. He has served in leadership of the district for eight and a half years, since he began as the district\u2019s first executive on July 12, 2015. In July that year, the Puerto Rico District was officially welcomed by the Annual Conference as the Church of the Brethren\u2019s 24th district.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During his tenure, Otero has given dedicated commitment to overseeing and encouraging the spiritual health and development of the congregations in Puerto Rico. He has served as a member of the Ministry Issues Committee of the Council of District Executives and has been the council\u2019s representative to the denomination\u2019s Mission and Ministries Planning Council.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In previous roles in the church he was team pastor at the congregation in Morovis, and he also has worked for Hogar CREA Inc., an institution working with drug addiction. He holds degrees from the Inter-American University of Puerto Rico and the Theological Institute of the Church of the Brethren in Puerto Rico, where he has been a professor of New Testament.<\/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\/board-considers-leadership-priorities\/\">Mission and Ministry Board considers priorities for next general secretary, approves 2027 budget<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/la-junta-de-misiones-y-ministerios\/\">La Junta de Misiones y Ministerios considera las prioridades para el pr\u00f3ximo secretario general y aprueba el presupuesto de 2027.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/konsey-misyon-ak-ministe\/\">Kons\u00e8y Misyon ak Minist\u00e8 a ap egzamine priyorite pou pwochen sekret\u00e8 jeneral la, epi apwouve bidj\u00e8 2027 la.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/partnership-marked-by-ribbon-cutting\/\">Catholic Medical Mission Board and Church of the Brethren to mark partnership with ribbon-cutting<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/la-junta-de-misiones-medicas\/\">La Junta de Misiones M\u00e9dicas Cat\u00f3licas y la Iglesia de los Hermanos celebrar\u00e1n su alianza con una ceremonia de inauguraci\u00f3n.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jos\u00e9 Calleja Otero has resigned as executive minister for the Church of the Brethren\u2019s Puerto Rico District, effective Dec. 6. He has served in leadership of the district for eight and a half years, since he began as the district\u2019s first executive on July 12, 2015. <\/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":[3,1511,2848,1774,1606,1881],"wf_post_folders":[],"class_list":["post-22902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-the-brethren-newsline","tag-church-of-the-brethren","tag-districts","tag-jose-calleja-otero","tag-personnel","tag-puerto-rico-district","tag-resignation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22902","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=22902"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22905,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22902\/revisions\/22905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22902"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=22902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}