{"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\/wcc-season-of-creation\/\">World Council of Churches invites churches worldwide to celebrate the Season of Creation<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/svmc-seeks-weird-wonderful-stories\/\">Susquehanna Valley Ministry Center seeks \u2018Weird and Wonderful Stories\u2019<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/n-ohio-food-drive-challenge\/\">Northern Ohio District churches participate in Peanut Butter and Canned Food Drive challenge<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/crest-manor-enters-shalom-partnership\/\">Crest Manor enters into \u2018Shalom Partnership\u2019 with Dismas House, celebrates vitality of Sunday Discussion Group and Book Club<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/cds-volunteers-support-kerrville\/\">CDS volunteers support \u2018Faith and Fellowship\u2019 memorial event in Kerrville<\/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}]}}