{"id":26880,"date":"2026-03-26T02:38:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T02:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/?p=26880"},"modified":"2026-03-28T02:41:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T02:41:31","slug":"interim-co-directors-mission-advancement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/interim-co-directors-mission-advancement\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt DeBall and Nancy McCrickard to serve as Church of the Brethren\u2019s interim co-directors for Mission Advancement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Matt DeBall and Nancy McCrickard began March 23 as the Church of the Brethren\u2019s interim co-directors for Mission Advancement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">McCrickard will take leadership of the giving and planned giving portion of Mission Advancement, while maintaining her current role and responsibilities as Mission Advancement advocate. She will continue to work remotely from her home in California.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">DeBall will provide leadership for the stewardship and communication portion, while maintaining his current role and responsibilities as coordinator of Mission Advancement communications. He will continue to work from the General Offices in Elgin, Ill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/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\/bvs-unit-339-begins-service\/\">Brethren Volunteer Service Unit 339 begins service<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/global-food-initiative-grants-6\/\">Global Food Initiative grants support ministries of congregations in Florida, Maryland, and Pennsylvania<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/edf-grants-support-rebuilding-2\/\">EDF grants support rebuilding in North Carolina and Western Maryland, aid Ukraine, Gaza and the West Bank, the DRC, Nigeria, Venezuela, Cuba<\/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 10 recipients<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/rachel-johnson-begins-new-role\/\">Rachel Johnson begins new role as assistant for Youth and Young Adult Ministries<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt DeBall and Nancy McCrickard began March 23 as the Church of the Brethren\u2019s interim co-directors for Mission Advancement.<\/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":[3700,1403,1386,3699,1774],"wf_post_folders":[],"class_list":["post-26880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-the-brethren-newsline","tag-interim-co-directors","tag-matt-deball","tag-mission-advancement","tag-nancy-mccrickard","tag-personnel"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26880","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=26880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26881,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26880\/revisions\/26881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26880"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=26880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}