{"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\/brethren-bits-118\/\">Brethren bits<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/fragmentos-de-hermanos\/\">Fragmentos de hermanos<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/moso-fre-yo\/\">Moso fr\u00e8 yo<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/recognize-national-migration-week\/\">Church is encouraged to recognize National Migration Week on Sept. 21-27<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/semen-nasyonal-migrasyon\/\">Yo ankouraje Legliz la pou l selebre Sem\u00e8n Nasyonal Migrasyon an soti 21 pou rive 27 septanm<\/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}]}}