{"id":243,"date":"2006-06-05T00:00:11","date_gmt":"2006-06-05T00:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.brethren.org\/news\/?p=243"},"modified":"2018-09-07T03:38:32","modified_gmt":"2018-09-07T03:38:32","slug":"brethren-homes-forum-held-at-the-cedars-in-kansas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2006\/brethren-homes-forum-held-at-the-cedars-in-kansas\/","title":{"rendered":"Brethren Homes Forum Held at the Cedars in Kansas"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr \/>\n<p>Many CEOs, administrators, board members, and chaplains of Brethren-affiliated retirement centers met May 4-6 at the Cedars in McPherson, Kan., for the Fellowship of Brethren Homes\u2019 annual forum. The Cedars is one of 22 Church of the Brethren facilities that are members of the fellowship, a ministry of the Association of Brethren Caregivers (ABC).<\/p>\n<p>The theme for this year\u2019s forum was \u201cDeveloping Leadership.\u201d Both administrators\u2019 and chaplains\u2019 tracks were available. Wally Landes, pastor of Palmyra (Pa.) Church of the Brethren and chair of the board of ABC, spoke on \u201cThe Church of the Brethren: Who We Are and How We Got Here,\u201d which set the tone for discussion regarding leadership within the Brethren agencies.<\/p>\n<p>David Slack, executive vice president of the Aging Research Institute, continued the discussion by presenting \u201cDeveloping Leadership and Strategic Learning.\u201d Don Fecher, director of the Fellowship of Brethren Homes, and Malcolm Nimick, CFA, Lancaster Pollard, also gave presentations.<\/p>\n<p>Plans are underway for next year\u2019s forum to be held at Hillcrest Homes in La Verne, Calif., with Larry Minnix, CEO of the American Association of Health Services for the Aging, as the keynote speaker.<\/p>\n<p><em>For more about the Brethren homes, go to www.brethren.org\/abc.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<footer class=\"blockquote-footer\">The Church of the Brethren Newsline is produced by Cheryl Brumbaugh-Cayford, director of news services for the Church of the Brethren General Board. Newsline stories may be reprinted if Newsline is cited as the source. To receive Newsline by e-mail go to http:\/\/listserver.emountain.net\/mailman\/listinfo\/newsline. Submit news to the editor at cobnews@brethren.org. For more Church of the Brethren news and features, subscribe to Messenger magazine; call 800-323-8039 ext. 247.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/footer>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many CEOs, administrators, board members, and chaplains of Brethren-affiliated retirement centers met May 4-6 at the Cedars in McPherson, Kan., for the Fellowship of Brethren Homes\u2019 annual forum. The Cedars is one of 22 Church of the Brethren facilities that are members of the fellowship, a ministry of the Association of Brethren Caregivers (ABC). The<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"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":[1],"tags":[47,3,481,240,239],"wf_post_folders":[],"class_list":["post-243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-association-of-brethren-caregivers","tag-church-of-the-brethren","tag-fellowship-of-brethren-homes","tag-palmyra-church-of-the-brethren","tag-the-cedars"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2896,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions\/2896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}