{"id":25689,"date":"2025-08-01T20:23:28","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T20:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/?p=25689"},"modified":"2025-08-01T20:23:28","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T20:23:28","slug":"melissa-fritz-concludes-her-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2025\/melissa-fritz-concludes-her-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Melissa Fritz concludes her work with Material Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Melissa Fritz on July 8 concluded her work as a packer with the Material Resources program of the Church of the Brethren. The program is located at the Brethren Service Center in New Windsor, Md.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This layoff is due to the upcoming closure of the Material Resources program at the end of 2025, and the reduced number of quilt donations that there are to process as program partners transition to new warehouses. (Read about the Mission and Ministry Board\u2019s decision to close Material Resources in the Newsline article of Oct. 23, 2023, at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2023\/board-decides-to-close-material-resources\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"www.brethren.org\/news\/2023\/board-decides-to-close-material-resources\">www.brethren.org\/news\/2023\/board-decides-to-close-material-resources<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fritz has been employed with Material Resources for almost eight years, since Oct. 2, 2017.<\/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\/beth-sollenberger-to-retire\/\">Beth Sollenberger to retire from leadership role in Atlantic Southeast District<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/bvs-unit-339-begins-service\/\">Brethren Volunteer Service Unit 339 begins service<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/global-food-initiative-grants-6\/\">Global Food Initiative grants support ministries of congregations in Florida, Maryland, and Pennsylvania<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/edf-grants-support-rebuilding-2\/\">EDF grants support rebuilding in North Carolina and Western Maryland, aid Ukraine, Gaza and the West Bank, the DRC, Nigeria, Venezuela, Cuba<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/brethren-bits-115\/\">Brethren bits<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melissa Fritz on July 8 concluded her work as a packer with the Material Resources program of the Church of the Brethren. The program is located at the Brethren Service Center in New Windsor, Md. This layoff is due to the upcoming closure of the Material Resources program at the end of 2025.<\/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":"yes","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1703],"tags":[582,1254,3390,458,3391,760,3392,1774],"wf_post_folders":[],"class_list":["post-25689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-the-brethren-newsline","tag-brethren-service-center","tag-disaster-relief","tag-layoff","tag-material-resources","tag-melissa-fritz","tag-mission-and-ministry-board","tag-packer","tag-personnel"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25689","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=25689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25690,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25689\/revisions\/25690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25689"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=25689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}