{"id":26198,"date":"2025-11-24T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/?p=26198"},"modified":"2025-11-25T21:14:42","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T21:14:42","slug":"richard-wehrle-transitions-employment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2025\/richard-wehrle-transitions-employment\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Wehrle moves from Part-time Pastor; Full-time Church program to Rural and Small Towns Initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Richard Wehrle transitioned on Nov. 17 from serving as program manager for the Church of the Brethren\u2019s Part-time Pastor; Full-time Church program to a new role as program manager for the Rural and Small Towns Initiative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This new initiative in the Discipleship and Leadership Formation department is a grant-funded program and a partnership with Ashland University. The grant will provide resources to help churches in rural areas and small towns enhance the vitality of their ministries and strengthen the leadership of their pastors and lay leaders.<\/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\/remembering-9-11\/\">Remembering 9\/11<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/recordando-el-11-de-septiembre\/\">Recordando el 11 de septiembre<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/sonje-11-septanm\/\">Sonje 11 septanm<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/faithx-wraps-up-summer-of-service\/\">FaithX wraps up summer of service<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/health-care-education-scholarships\/\">Health Care Education Scholarships are awarded to nine recipients<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Wehrle transitioned on Nov. 17 from serving as program manager for the Church of the Brethren\u2019s Part-time Pastor; Full-time Church program to a new role as program manager for the Rural and Small Towns Initiative.<\/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":[2610,1267,1914,1774,2794,3531],"wf_post_folders":[],"class_list":["post-26198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-the-brethren-newsline","tag-discipleship-and-leadership-formation","tag-ministry-office","tag-part-time-pastor-full-time-church","tag-personnel","tag-richard-wehrle","tag-rural-and-small-towns-initiative"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26198","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=26198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26199,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26198\/revisions\/26199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26198"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=26198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}