{"id":26465,"date":"2026-01-30T17:05:30","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T17:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/?p=26465"},"modified":"2026-01-30T17:05:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T17:05:30","slug":"interim-co-directors-of-bvs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/interim-co-directors-of-bvs\/","title":{"rendered":"Witkovsky-Eldred and Rendler begin as interim co-directors of Brethren Volunteer Service"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Marissa Witkovsky-Eldred and Virginia Rendler have accepted the positions of interim co-directors of Brethren Volunteer Service (BVS), starting Jan. 26.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Marissa Witkovsky-Eldred will provide leadership for the administration of BVS,<\/strong> while maintaining her current role and responsibilities as the coordinator of short-term service and FaithX for BVS. She started as interim coordinator of short-term service for BVS on Oct. 3, 2022. She will continue to work remotely from her home in Maryland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Virginia Rendler will take leadership of development and partner relationships of BVS,<\/strong> while maintaining her current role and responsibilities as volunteer coordinator for BVS. She started as interim volunteer coordinator for BVS on July 17, 2023. She will continue to work remotely from her home in Indiana.<\/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\/cds-volunteers-support-kerrville\/\">CDS volunteers support \u2018Faith and Fellowship\u2019 memorial event in Kerrville<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/pastors-ordained-in-south-sudan\/\">Pastors ordained for Church of the Brethren ministry in South Sudan<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/speakers-for-nyc-2026\/\">The speakers for National Youth Conference 2026<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/brethren-and-the-declaration\/\">Brethren and the Declaration of Independence: Denise Kettering-Lane presents an equipping session<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/god-of-grace-and-god-of-glory\/\">\u2018God of grace and God of glory\u2019: A call to worship<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marissa Witkovsky-Eldred and Virginia Rendler have accepted the positions of interim co-directors of Brethren Volunteer Service (BVS), starting Jan. 26.<\/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":[68,5,1814,1774,1160,2681,2195],"wf_post_folders":[],"class_list":["post-26465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-the-brethren-newsline","tag-brethren-volunteer-service","tag-bvs","tag-faithx","tag-personnel","tag-service-ministries","tag-virginia-rendler","tag-service"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26465","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=26465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26466,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26465\/revisions\/26466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26465"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=26465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}