{"id":24618,"date":"2024-11-13T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/?p=24618"},"modified":"2024-11-13T22:46:39","modified_gmt":"2024-11-13T22:46:39","slug":"lennard-to-retire-brethren-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2024\/lennard-to-retire-brethren-press\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Lennard announces his retirement from Brethren Press"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jeff Lennard has announced his retirement from Brethren Press, effective March 28, 2025. He has served as director of Marketing and Sales for the Church of the Brethren publishing house for 18 years, since Nov. 2006.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lennard\u2019s work has included overseeing the publishing house\u2019s e-commerce site and the bookstores at Church of the Brethren conferences; supervising customer service, shipping, and inventory management; marketing products on multiple platforms; and playing a key role in the development of new resources. As part of his work, he also is marketing coordinator for the Shine curriculum project, a joint endeavor of Brethren Press and MennoMedia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ministry of growing faith within congregations and individuals is particularly meaningful to him. Prior to his work with Brethren Press, Lennard managed Christian bookstores in Chicago, Ill., and Omaha, Neb., and his career in church publishing now spans more than three decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">#MissionAndMinistryBoard #StrategicPlan #LoveOurNeighbors #Discipleship <\/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\/help-shape-intergenerational-resources\/\">Help shape resources for intergenerational ministry: An invitation from Brethren Press<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/direkte-misyon-mondyal\/\">Direkt\u00e8 egzekitif Misyon Mondyal la f\u00e8 premye vizit li nan Legliz Fr\u00e8 d&#8217;Haiti ak nan Pwoj\u00e8 Medikal Ayiti a.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/global-mission-executive-visits-haiti\/\">Global Mission executive director makes first visit to l\u2019Eglise des Fr\u00e8res d\u2019Haiti and the Haiti Medical Project<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/el-director-de-global-mission\/\">El director ejecutivo de Global Mission realiza su primera visita a la iglesia de los Hermanos de Hait\u00ed y al Proyecto M\u00e9dico de Hait\u00ed.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/d-c-circuit-court-of-appeals-decision\/\">D.C. Circuit Court holds that plaintiffs have standing in \u2018sensitive locations\u2019 lawsuit<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Lennard has announced his retirement from Brethren Press, effective March 28, 2025. He has served as director of Marketing and Sales for the Church of the Brethren publishing house for 18 years, since Nov. 2006.<\/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":[49,1222,1774,1990,1897],"wf_post_folders":[],"class_list":["post-24618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-the-brethren-newsline","tag-brethren-press","tag-jeff-lennard","tag-personnel","tag-publishing","tag-retirement"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24618","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=24618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24619,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24618\/revisions\/24619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24618"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=24618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}