{"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\/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>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}]}}