Leah J. Hileman began Dec. 10 as district executive minister for the Church of the Brethren\u2019s West Marva District, serving in a half-time position. She was ordained in 2011 in Atlantic Southeast District and is currently pastoring Robinson Church of the Brethren in Seward, Pa., in a quarter-time capacity. She lives in Seward and will travel as needed to West Marva District to carry out this role.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hileman previously served congregations in Atlantic Southeast, Atlantic Northeast, Shenandoah, and Southern Pennsylvania Districts. She is an experienced church planter, musician, and composer, and has been a member of the Bittersweet Gospel Band since 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On the denominational level, she has been a member of the Standing Committee of district delegates to Annual Conference and also was on a previous Review and Evaluation Committee for Annual Conference. She has been part of the Church Planting Network and Intercultural Consultation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Music degree from Harding University, has studied at Ashland Theological Seminary, and obtained a Training in Ministry Certificate from the Brethren Academy for Ministerial Leadership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Leah J. Hileman began Dec. 10 as district executive minister for the Church of the Brethren\u2019s West Marva District, serving in a half-time position. She was ordained in 2011 in Atlantic Southeast District and is currently pastoring Robinson Church of the Brethren in Seward, Pa., in a quarter-time capacity. She lives in Seward and will travel as needed to West Marva District to carry out this role.<\/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":[1882,3169,1267,1774,992],"wf_post_folders":[],"class_list":["post-24690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-the-brethren-newsline","tag-district-executive","tag-leah-hileman","tag-ministry-office","tag-personnel","tag-west-marva-district"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24690","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=24690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24691,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24690\/revisions\/24691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24690"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=24690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}