{"id":23474,"date":"2024-03-22T11:17:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-22T11:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/?p=23474"},"modified":"2024-03-22T23:18:51","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T23:18:51","slug":"douglas-veal-to-mid-atlantic-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2024\/douglas-veal-to-mid-atlantic-district\/","title":{"rendered":"Douglas Veal to lead Mid-Atlantic District"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Douglas Veal has been called as district executive minister for the Church of the Brethren\u2019s Mid-Atlantic District, beginning June 25. Veal is currently pastor of Wabash (Ind.) Church of the Brethren in South Central Indiana District and also has served pastorates in Southern Ohio and Kentucky District and in Virlina District.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He holds a bachelor\u2019s degree from Bridgewater (Va.) College and a master of divinity from Bethany Theological Seminary, has done Clinical Pastoral Education training through Eastern Mennonite Seminary. He was ordained in the Nettle Creek congregation of South Central Indiana District in 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Veal has been an instructor for the Christian Growth Institute of Virlina District and the Brethren Leadership Institute of South Central Indiana District. He previously served as chair of Virlina District\u2019s New Church Development Committee for several years. He has been a member of the New and Renew Advisory Team of the Church of the Brethren denomination for the past 10 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He and his family plan to relocate to the Westminster, Md., area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/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\/general-secretary-signs-statement\/\">General secretary signs statement on Christian presence in the Middle East<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/el-secretario-general-firma\/\">El secretario general firma una declaraci\u00f3n sobre la presencia cristiana en Oriente Medio.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/sekrete-jeneral-la-siyen\/\">Sekret\u00e8 Jeneral la siyen yon deklarasyon sou prezans kretyen nan Mwayen Oryan an<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/meeting-at-the-margins-worship-resources\/\">\u2018Meeting at the Margins\u2019 Advent worship resources focus on the Holy Family and migrants today<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/los-recursos-liturgicos-de-adviento\/\">Los recursos lit\u00fargicos de Adviento \u00abEncuentro en los m\u00e1rgenes\u00bb se centran en la Sagrada Familia y los migrantes de hoy.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Douglas Veal has been called as district executive minister for the Church of the Brethren\u2019s Mid-Atlantic District, beginning June 25. Veal is currently pastor of Wabash (Ind.) Church of the Brethren in South Central Indiana District and also has served pastorates in Southern Ohio and Kentucky District and in Virlina District.<\/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":[3,1882,1511,2967,1358,1561,1774],"wf_post_folders":[],"class_list":["post-23474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-the-brethren-newsline","tag-church-of-the-brethren","tag-district-executive","tag-districts","tag-douglas-veal","tag-mid-atlantic-district","tag-office-of-ministry","tag-personnel"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23474","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=23474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23475,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23474\/revisions\/23475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23474"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=23474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}