Shannon McNeil Smith begins Oct. 7 as executive administrative assistant for the General Secretary’s Office at the Church of the Brethren General Offices in Elgin, Ill. She is currently working as a Mission Advancement advocate, a position she has held since March 4, 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Through the end of October, McNeil Smith will be working alongside Nancy Miner, who is closing out her term as manager of the General Secretary\u2019s Office. Miner and her husband, Blaine, are taking up positions as co-district executives of the Church of the Brethren\u2019s Western Plains District.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In her more than five years in Mission Advancement, McNeil Smith has been serving with Nancy Timbrook McCrickard as a team working at relationship-building with donors to support the Church of the Brethren\u2019s denominational programs. The work has entailed much travel, attendance at many district conferences, making personal visits with donors, and interpreting the work of the church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Prior to her employment with the Church of the Brethren, she was manager of human resources and constituent affairs in the Office of the Governor in Chicago, Ill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
McNeil Smith is a member of Neighborhood Church of the Brethren in Montgomery, Ill., a graduate of Bridgewater (Va.) College with a bachelor\u2019s degree in international studies, and a graduate of the University of Chicago with a master\u2019s in Middle Eastern studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Shannon McNeil Smith begins Oct. 7 as executive administrative assistant for the General Secretary’s Office at the Church of the Brethren General Offices in Elgin, Ill. She is currently working as a Mission Advancement advocate, a position she has held since March 4, 2019.<\/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":[2096,1774,3094],"wf_post_folders":[],"class_list":["post-24310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-the-brethren-newsline","tag-office-of-the-general-secretary","tag-personnel","tag-shannon-mcneil-smith"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24310","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=24310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24311,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24310\/revisions\/24311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24310"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=24310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}