{"id":27648,"date":"2026-08-28T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/?p=27648"},"modified":"2026-08-28T17:29:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T17:29:25","slug":"jon-lucas-keller-resigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/jon-lucas-keller-resigns\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Lucas Keller resigns from Church of the Brethren\u2019s Mission Advancement team"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jon Lucas Keller has announced his resignation as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/missionadvancement\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/missionadvancement\/\">Mission Advancement<\/a> advocate for the Church of the Brethren as of Sept. 11. He joined the denominational staff on July 28, 2025, and has spent the past year connecting with individuals and congregations in support of denominational ministries. He worked remotely from Maineville, Ohio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Keller has accepted a position with another nonprofit organization that will enable him to serve more directly in his local and regional community. Previously, he had been the grants manager for the Troy (Ohio) Foundation.<\/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\/brethren-volunteer-service-unit-340\/\">Brethren Volunteer Service Unit 340 completes orientation<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/la-unidad-340-del-bvs\/\">La Unidad 340 del Servicio Voluntario de los Hermanos completa la orientaci\u00f3n.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/inite-sevis-volonte-fre-yo-340\/\">Inite S\u00e8vis Volont\u00e8 Fr\u00e8 yo 340 fini oryantasyon an<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/pastors-manual-in-creole-french\/\">New Pastor\u2019s Manual in Haitian Creole and French to be used in Haiti and Africa<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/nuevo-manual-para-pastores\/\">Nuevo manual para pastores en criollo haitiano y franc\u00e9s para ser utilizado en Hait\u00ed y \u00c1frica.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Lucas Keller has announced his resignation as Mission Advancement advocate for the Church of the Brethren as of Sept. 11. He joined the denominational staff on July 28, 2025.<\/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":[3387,1386,1774,1881],"wf_post_folders":[],"class_list":["post-27648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-the-brethren-newsline","tag-jon-lucas-keller","tag-mission-advancement","tag-personnel","tag-resignation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27648","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=27648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27649,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27648\/revisions\/27649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27648"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=27648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}