{"id":25262,"date":"2025-05-29T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/?p=25262"},"modified":"2025-05-30T22:50:20","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T22:50:20","slug":"mid-atlantic-district-new-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2025\/mid-atlantic-district-new-role\/","title":{"rendered":"Mid-Atlantic District announces new regional ministry associates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Church of the Brethren\u2019s Mid-Atlantic District has announced a new role at the district level titled the Regional Ministry Associate. In April, <strong>Charlotte Bear and Rusty Curling were called to this role<\/strong>, beginning May 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The need for better connections between the district and congregations was identified during the interim period between the retirement of Gene Hagenberger and the call of Doug Veal to the district executive minister role. The new associates will work with congregations in their geographical region to maintain regular communication, develop relationships with pastoral staff and laity, make congregations aware of resources available to them, support congregations in creating and sustaining healthy ministry programs, connect congregations with neighboring Church of the Brethren congregations as well as the district and denomination, and monitor the overall spiritual, financial, and organizational health of congregations to ensure optimal vibrance and vitality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The district continues to search for a third person to fill the remaining available role.<\/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\/discernment-and-calling-an-appeal\/\">Discernment and calling: An appeal for nominations for the Annual Conference ballot<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/disenman-ak-apel-yon-apel\/\">Dis\u00e8nman ak ap\u00e8l: Yon ap\u00e8l pou nominasyon pou bilten v\u00f2t Konferans Any\u00e8l la<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/discernimiento-y-vocacion-convocatoria\/\">Discernimiento y vocaci\u00f3n: Convocatoria para la presentaci\u00f3n de candidaturas para la votaci\u00f3n de la Conferencia Anual.<\/a><\/li>\n<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\/ayude-a-dar-forma-a-los-recursos\/\">Ayude a dar forma a los recursos para el ministerio intergeneracional: Una invitaci\u00f3n de Brethren Press.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of the Brethren\u2019s Mid-Atlantic District has announced a new role at the district level titled the Regional Ministry Associate. In April, Charlotte Bear and Rusty Curling were called to this role, beginning 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":[1358,1267,1774],"wf_post_folders":[],"class_list":["post-25262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-the-brethren-newsline","tag-mid-atlantic-district","tag-ministry-office","tag-personnel"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25262","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=25262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25263,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25262\/revisions\/25263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25262"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=25262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}