{"id":25675,"date":"2025-07-25T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/?p=25675"},"modified":"2025-07-25T23:44:30","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T23:44:30","slug":"amaya-hired-in-pacific-southwest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2025\/amaya-hired-in-pacific-southwest\/","title":{"rendered":"Jose Rudy Amaya hired as first associate district executive minister intern in Pacific Southwest District"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jose Rudy Amaya, a member of Conexion Pasadena (Calif.) Church of the Brethren, began June 1 as the first associate district executive minister intern for the Church of the Brethren\u2019s Pacific Southwest District. \u201cThe internship is designed to expose the intern to the variety of work that is part of serving as a middle judicatory staff person,\u201d said the district announcement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The district plan calls for about 60 hours per month of work, 12 to 15 hours per week on average, in the position. The initial contract is for 6 months, with the opportunity to renew that up to 2 additional terms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Born and raised in El Salvador, it was during his time at CHET (the training center for the Iglesia del Pacto&#8211;Covenant Church) that Amaya met Rodrigo Zapata and began to attend Principe de Paz Church of the Brethren. He has been a part of the Church of the Brethren for the last 20 years. His volunteer work in the district has included service as a member of the district Nominating Committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He holds a certificate in theology from CHET and a Church Ministry certificate from Hope International University.<\/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\/letter-supports-green-card-holders\/\">Office of Peacebuilding and Policy signs on to letter supporting green card holders and resettled refugees<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/carta-de-apoyo-a-los-refugiados\/\">La Oficina de Consolidaci\u00f3n de la Paz y Pol\u00edticas se suma a una carta de apoyo a los titulares de la tarjeta verde y a los refugiados reasentados.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/let-pou-sipote-moun\/\">Biwo pou Konsolidasyon Lap\u00e8 ak R\u00e8gleman siyen yon l\u00e8t pou sip\u00f2te moun ki gen kat v\u00e8t ak refijye ki reyentegre yo.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/fon-legliz-fre-yo-anonse\/\">Fon Legliz Fr\u00e8 yo anonse d\u00e8nye sibvansyon yo<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/los-fondos-de-la-iglesia\/\">Los fondos de la Iglesia de los Hermanos anuncian sus \u00faltimas subvenciones.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jose Rudy Amaya, a member of Conexion Pasadena (Calif.) Church of the Brethren, began June 1 as the first associate district executive minister intern for the Church of the Brethren\u2019s Pacific Southwest District. <\/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":[3388,3389,1267,1369,1774],"wf_post_folders":[],"class_list":["post-25675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-the-brethren-newsline","tag-district-executive-intern","tag-jose-rudy-amaya","tag-ministry-office","tag-pacific-southwest-district","tag-personnel"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25675","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=25675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25676,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25675\/revisions\/25676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25675"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=25675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}