{"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\/annual-conference-moderator-theme\/\">Annual Conference moderator shares theme statement for 2027<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/conferencia-anual-declaracion-tematica\/\">El moderador de la Conferencia Anual comparte la declaraci\u00f3n tem\u00e1tica para 2027.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/konferans-deklarasyon-tem-2027\/\">Moderat\u00e8 konferans any\u00e8l la pataje deklarasyon t\u00e8m pou 2027 la<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/what-faithful-witness-asks\/\">What faithful witness asks of churches today: CCT\u2019s 20th anniversary forum<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/sa-temwen-fidel-yo-mande\/\">Sa temwen fid\u00e8l yo mande legliz yo jodi a: fow\u00f2m 20y\u00e8m aniv\u00e8s\u00e8 CCT a<\/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}]}}