{"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\"><li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/supreme-court-decision-on-tps\/\">Supreme Court decision on TPS for Haitians and Syrians will affect hundreds of Church of the Brethren members<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/kairos-center-issues-press-statement\/\">Kairos Center issues press statement on Supreme Court case in which Church of the Brethren joined amicus brief<\/a><\/li>\n<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<\/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}]}}