{"id":25127,"date":"2025-04-23T18:20:31","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T18:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/?p=25127"},"modified":"2025-04-23T18:20:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T18:20:32","slug":"tabitha-rudy-joins-academy-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2025\/tabitha-rudy-joins-academy-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Tabitha Hartman Rudy to join staff of Brethren Academy for Ministerial Leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tabitha Hartman Rudy will join the staff of the Brethren Academy for Ministerial Leadership as part-time coordinator of English-Language Ministry Training Programs, starting May 1. The academy is a collaboration of the Church of the Brethren Ministry Office and Bethany Theological Seminary, with offices at the seminary campus in Richmond, Ind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An ordained minister who holds a master of divinity from Bethany Seminary, Rudy has served the Church of the Brethren in a variety of capacities including as pastor, associate district executive, and teacher. Most recently, she has been part-time administrative assistant for the Part-Time Pastor; Full-Time Church program of the denomination\u2019s Ministry Office, a position she will continue alongside her work with the academy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She and her family live in Boones Mill, Va., where her husband, Daniel Rudy, is Virlina District executive minister.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the Bethany Seminary personnel announcement at <a href=\"https:\/\/bethanyseminary.edu\/rev-tabitha-rudy-to-join-staff-of-brethren-academy\">https:\/\/bethanyseminary.edu\/rev-tabitha-rudy-to-join-staff-of-brethren-academy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Find more Church of the Brethren news:<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__list wp-block-latest-posts\"><li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/conference-business-for-2026\/\">Conference business includes resolutions on weapons transfer, care for immigrants and refugees, polity adjustments for licensed and commissioned ministers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/essential-services-of-ordinances\/\">Essential services of ordinances now available online as For All Who Minister prepares for reprinting<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/bdm-rebuilding-program-new-focus\/\">Brethren Disaster Ministries Rebuilding Program serves Hurricane Helene and Western Maryland storm survivors<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/shine-free-worship-resource\/\">Shine Everywhere free six-week worship series helps churches nurture faith at home<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/invitations-to-look-up\/\">Feature for Earth Month and Poetry Month: Invitations to look up, to seek abundant life<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tabitha Hartman Rudy will join the staff of the Brethren Academy for Ministerial Leadership as part-time coordinator of English-Language Ministry Training Programs, starting May 1.<\/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":[27,28,1267,1774,2621,1304],"wf_post_folders":[],"class_list":["post-25127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-the-brethren-newsline","tag-bethany-theological-seminary","tag-brethren-academy-for-ministerial-leadership","tag-ministry-office","tag-personnel","tag-tabitha-hartman-rudy","tag-training"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25127","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=25127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25128,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25127\/revisions\/25128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25127"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=25127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}