{"id":23615,"date":"2024-05-01T10:55:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-01T10:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/?p=23615"},"modified":"2024-05-04T23:03:05","modified_gmt":"2024-05-04T23:03:05","slug":"atlantic-southeast-district-staff-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2024\/atlantic-southeast-district-staff-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlantic Southeast District announces staff appointments"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Atlantic Southeast District has called <strong>Michaela Alphonse<\/strong> to serve as temporary director of program, a part-time role she began this past February and will resume Aug. 1 after she completes a pastoral sabbatical. The district has called <strong>Larry O\u2019Neill<\/strong> to serve as director of English ministries, a role he began on March 23.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The district staff also includes four other part-time director-level positions covering the areas of administration, Haitian ministries, Hispanic ministries, and finance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Alphonse<\/strong> is participating in the Training in Ministry Program of the Brethren Academy for Ministerial Leadership. She is a member and licensed minister at Miami (Fla.) First Church of the Brethren. She holds educational degrees from Miami-Dade College and Florida International University. She has served as a member of the Church of the Brethren\u2019s Compelling Vision Team, whose work was affirmed by the 2021 Annual Conference, and currently is a member of the denomination\u2019s Mission and Ministry Board. She is a frequent presenter at denominational conferences and retreats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>O\u2019Neill<\/strong> completed his ministry training preparation through the TRIM program of the Brethren Academy and was ordained in the Skippack congregation in Atlantic Northeast District, where he served as pastor. He holds educational degrees from Atlantic Community College and Texas Lutheran College and has training in Clinical Pastoral Education. He has been a chaplain at Souderton (Pa.) Mennonite Home (Living Branches, Inc.) prior to relocating to St. Cloud, Fla. He currently pastors New Covenant Church of the Brethren in Gotha, Fla., and is a volunteer chaplain for the sheriff\u2019s office in Osceola County, Fla.<\/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\/faithx-wraps-up-summer-of-service\/\">FaithX wraps up summer of service<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/health-care-education-scholarships\/\">Health Care Education Scholarships are awarded to nine recipients<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/ddr-update-termination-of-tps\/\">Deportation Defense Response Team provides update as termination of TPS takes effect<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/ancillary-insurances-available-via-eder\/\">Ancillary insurances available to Brethren church workers in 2027<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/germantown-hosts-training-program\/\">Germantown Church hosts new \u2018Building and Empowering Lay Leadership\u2019 training program<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atlantic Southeast District has called Michaela Alphonse to serve as temporary director of program, a part-time role she began this past February and will resume Aug. 1 after she completes a pastoral sabbatical. The district has called Larry O\u2019Neill to serve as director of English ministries, a role he began on March 23.<\/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":[1326,3,1511,2995,2994,1561,1774],"wf_post_folders":[],"class_list":["post-23615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-the-brethren-newsline","tag-atlantic-southeast-district","tag-church-of-the-brethren","tag-districts","tag-larry-oneill","tag-michaela-alphonse","tag-office-of-ministry","tag-personnel"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23615","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=23615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23616,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23615\/revisions\/23616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23615"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=23615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}