{"id":27734,"date":"2026-09-18T15:20:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T15:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/?p=27734"},"modified":"2026-09-18T15:20:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T15:20:22","slug":"eder-financial-open-enrollment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/eder-financial-open-enrollment\/","title":{"rendered":"Eder Financial announces open enrollment for eligible employees on Nov. 9-20"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"321\" height=\"50\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/08\/EderFinancialLogo.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/08\/EderFinancialLogo.jpg 321w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/08\/EderFinancialLogo-300x47.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 321px) 100vw, 321px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>A release from Eder Financial<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ederfinancial.org\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/ederfinancial.org\/\">Eder Financial<\/a> will conduct open enrollment for 2027 benefits from Monday, Nov. 9, through Friday, Nov. 20. Open enrollment is the once-a-year opportunity to update insurance coverage. Eligible pastors and staff members of congregations, districts, and camps can purchase <a href=\"https:\/\/ederfinancial.org\/Long-and-Short-Term-Disability\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/ederfinancial.org\/Long-and-Short-Term-Disability\">short- and long-term disability<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/ederfinancial.org\/Life\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/ederfinancial.org\/Life\">life<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/ederfinancial.org\/Dental-and-Vision-Insurance\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/ederfinancial.org\/Dental-and-Vision-Insurance\">vision, dental<\/a>, critical illness, and <a href=\"https:\/\/ederfinancial.org\/accident\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/ederfinancial.org\/accident\">accident insurance<\/a> from Eder Financial again this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe people we serve are more than participants in a benefits plan. They are pastors, church workers, and families who dedicate themselves to ministry every day,\u201d said Debbie Butcher, Benefits Operations manager at Eder Financial. \u201cWe are pleased to be able to offer these important benefits for 2027.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Eligible participants who want to keep their current coverage do not need to re-enroll, but prior to open enrollment, all eligible participants should visit <a href=\"https:\/\/ederfinancial.org\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"ederfinancial.org\">ederfinancial.org<\/a> and log in to the Health and Life Benefits <a href=\"https:\/\/ederfinancial.mybenefitchoice.com\/Default.aspx\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/ederfinancial.mybenefitchoice.com\/Default.aspx\">member portal<\/a> to verify and update their personal information to ensure they receive important benefits-related communications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>About Eder Financial<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ederfinancial.org\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/ederfinancial.org\/\">Eder Financial<\/a> is a not-for-profit agency, reportable to the Church of the Brethren <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/ac\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/ac\/\">Annual Conference<\/a>, that provides retirement, insurance, and organizational investing services. Governed by a board of directors of 12 Church of the Brethren members who have expertise in law, finance, benefits, and investment, Eder Financial serves individuals, organizations, and congregations affiliated with the Church of the Brethren as well as those of like mind within the broader faith-based and nonprofit community. <a href=\"https:\/\/ederfinancial.org\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"ederfinancial.org\">For more information<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>&#8212; Precious Earley is Public Relations director for Eder Financial.<\/em><\/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>Eder Financial will conduct open enrollment for 2027 benefits from Monday, Nov. 9, through Friday, Nov. 20. Open enrollment is the once-a-year opportunity to update insurance coverage. Eligible pastors and staff members of congregations, districts, and camps can purchase short- and long-term disability, life, vision, dental, critical illness, and accident insurance from Eder Financial again this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":22527,"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":[3890,2436,3902,2188,2244,1804,2056,2195],"wf_post_folders":[],"class_list":["post-27734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-church-of-the-brethren-newsline","tag-church-workers","tag-eder-financial","tag-feature","tag-health","tag-insurance","tag-open-enrollment","tag-pastors","tag-service"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27734","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=27734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27735,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27734\/revisions\/27735"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27734"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=27734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}