{"id":25915,"date":"2025-09-12T20:55:54","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T20:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/?p=25915"},"modified":"2025-09-12T20:55:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T20:55:54","slug":"bdm-seeks-program-evaluation-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2025\/bdm-seeks-program-evaluation-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Brethren Disaster Ministries seeks program evaluation and grant writer support"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>By Jenn Dorsch-Messler<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Brethren Disaster Ministries team is searching for volunteer or paid consultants to support the completion of a program evaluation of our domestic disaster ministries for future planning and grant possibilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These consultants would coordinate information-gathering opportunities, facilitate conversations and record feedback, and write a formal grant proposal. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"87\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/09\/Brethren-Disaster-Ministries-logo-color.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2418\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This work will help Brethren Disaster Ministries explore our current domestic disaster program, outline possibilities for program improvements, frame plans for expanding the ministries, and consider possible new disaster-related ministries. Key needs to be addressed include increased numbers of volunteers, leaders, resources, and funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some background with the Church of the Brethren, Brethren Disaster Ministries, or domestic disaster work is preferred. If you or someone you know has these skills and experience, please contact Jenn Dorsch-Messler at <a href=\"mailto:jdorsch-messler@brethren.org\">jdorsch-messler@brethren.org<\/a> or 410-635-8737 by Sept. 30.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>&#8212; Jenn Dorsch-Messler is director of Brethren Disaster Ministries.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">#MissionAndMinistryBoard #StrategicPlan #RacialJustice #LoveOurNeighbors #Discipleship #NewTestamentGiving<\/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\/board-approves-statement-of-intent\/\">Mission and Ministry Board approves statement of intent regarding future of the General Offices<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/intercultural-ministries-frontliners\/\">\u2018Frontliners\u2019 certified to serve in their districts on behalf of Intercultural Ministries<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/juneteenth-prayer\/\">Juneteenth Prayer<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/networking-groups-new-at-ac2026\/\">Networking Groups are new this year at Annual Conference<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/brethren-bits-113\/\">Brethren bits<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Brethren Disaster Ministries team is searching for volunteer or paid consultants to support the completion of a program evaluation of our domestic disaster ministries for future planning and grant possibilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5933,"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":[1252,456,3433,3432],"wf_post_folders":[],"class_list":["post-25915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-church-of-the-brethren-newsline","tag-bdm","tag-brethren-disaster-ministries","tag-grant-writing","tag-program-evaluation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25915","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=25915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25916,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25915\/revisions\/25916"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25915"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=25915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}