{"id":25673,"date":"2025-07-25T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/?p=25673"},"modified":"2025-07-25T23:14:34","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T23:14:34","slug":"jon-lucas-keller-hired-by-denomination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2025\/jon-lucas-keller-hired-by-denomination\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Lucas Keller hired by the Church of the Brethren as Mission Advancement advocate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jon Lucas Keller begins July 28 as a Mission Advancement advocate serving on the Church of the Brethren denominational staff. He most recently has been the grants manager for the Troy (Ohio) Foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Keller holds a bachelor of arts degree in Sociology and Community Development from Bluffton University. He brings a strong communications background that focuses on the impact of storytelling to invite engagement and financial support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He is a founding member of the Racial Justice Team of the Church of the Brethren\u2019s Southern Ohio and Kentucky District and his involvement in the Church of the Brethren has included attendance at the Christian Citizenship Seminar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He will work as a remote employee from Maineville, Ohio.<\/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\"><li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/shine-curriculum-for-fall-2026\/\">Shine curriculum for Fall 2026 includes new features<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/bfia-grants-go-to-churches-and-camp\/\">BFIA grants support congregations\u2019 outreach to neighbors and a memorial to victims of violence, among other projects<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/elizabethtown-hosts-rise-up-conference\/\">Volunteers rise up: New CWS outreach campaign draws refugee advocates to Elizabethtown Church<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/fall-2026-ventures-series\/\">Fall Ventures series features deep dive into stress, trauma, and resilience<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/beth-sollenberger-to-retire\/\">Beth Sollenberger to retire from leadership role in Atlantic Southeast District<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Lucas Keller begins July 28 as a Mission Advancement advocate serving on the Church of the Brethren denominational staff. He most recently has been the grants manager for the Troy (Ohio) Foundation.<\/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":[2645,3387,1386,1774],"wf_post_folders":[],"class_list":["post-25673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-the-brethren-newsline","tag-fundraising","tag-jon-lucas-keller","tag-mission-advancement","tag-personnel"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25673","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=25673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25674,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25673\/revisions\/25674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25673"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=25673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}