{"id":5550,"date":"2012-10-15T00:00:38","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T00:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.brethren.org\/news\/?p=5550"},"modified":"2018-11-03T20:18:06","modified_gmt":"2018-11-03T20:18:06","slug":"bvs-unit-299-begins-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2012\/bvs-unit-299-begins-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Brethren Volunteer Service Unit 299 Begins Work"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Members of Brethren Volunteer Service Unit 299, the fall 2012 orientation unit for BVS, are: (first row, from left) Hannah Button-Harrison,Jocelyn Snyder, Lena Deutschkaemer, Tricia Ziegler, Adam Braun; (second row) Rebecca Jolliff, Kayla Robbins, Kirsten Stopher, Krista Mauger, Hannah Monroe; (third row) Rayce Reynoldson, Nicole Sprenger, Sophie Thomas, Michelle Geus, Merle Koester; (fourth row) Jan Hunsaenger, Chloe Hockley, Katie Cummings, Rebekka Adelberger, Bryan Hanger; (fifth row) Nils Kohm, Dennis Droll, Frederik Blum, Paul Zelder, Elena Hodapp.<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

Brethren Volunteer Service (BVS) Unit 299 completed orientation on Sept. 16-Oct. 5. The fall orientation was held at the Brethren Service Center in New Windsor, Md.<\/p>\n

Following are the new volunteers, their home congregations or home towns, and the projects where they will serve through BVS:<\/p>\n

Rebekka Adelberger<\/strong> of Velbert, Germany, will serve with Sisters of the Road in Portland, Ore.<\/p>\n

Frederik Blum<\/strong> of Blaustein, Germany; Nicole Sprenger<\/strong> of Altenmedingen, Germany; and Nils Kohm<\/strong> of Wiesloch, Germany, all are going to Project PLASE in Baltimore, Md.<\/p>\n

Adam Braun<\/strong> of Pleasant Dale Church of the Brethren in Decatur, Ind., will work with Brethren Disaster Ministries in New Windsor, Md.<\/p>\n

Hannah Button-Harrison<\/strong> of Ames, Iowa, will serve at the Capital Area Food Bank in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n

Katie Cummings<\/strong> of Summit Church of the Brethren in Bridgewater, Va., and Tricia Ziegler<\/strong> ofSebring (Fla.) Church of the Brethren, are working with the Workcamp Ministry at the Church of the Brethren General Offices in Elgin, Ill.<\/p>\n

Dennis Droll<\/strong> of Buehl, Germany, and Michelle Geus<\/strong> of Leverkusen, Germany, are serving at the Interfaith Hospitality Network in Cincinnati, Ohio.<\/p>\n

Bryan Hanger<\/strong> of Oak Grove Church of the Brethren in Roanoke, Va., is an intern at the Church of the Brethren\u2019s Advocacy and Peace Witness office in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n

Chloe Hockley<\/strong>, of Elizabethtown (Pa.) Church of the Brethren, will work at Cincinnati (Ohio) Church of the Brethren.<\/p>\n

Jan Hunsaenger<\/strong> of Kamp-Bornhofen, Germany, will serve with Human Solutions in Portland, Ore.<\/p>\n

Rebecca Jolliff<\/strong> of Newberg, Ore., is going to the Center on Conscience and War in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n

Hannah Monroe<\/strong> of University Park Church of the Brethren in Hyattsville, Md., will go to the L\u2019Arche community in Belfast, Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n

Rayce Reynoldson<\/strong> of Antelope Park Church of the Brethren in Lincoln, Neb., is serving at Camp Courageous in Monticello, Iowa.<\/p>\n

Kayla Robbins<\/strong> of Wolgamuth Church of the Brethren in Dillsburg, Pa., will work for the National Campaign for a Peace Tax Fund in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n

Jocelyn Snyder<\/strong> of Hartville (Ohio) Church of the Brethren will be serving with the African Inland Church Secondary School of Torit, South Sudan, in a seconded position with the Church of the Brethren Global Mission and Service program.<\/p>\n

Kirsten Stopher<\/strong> of Archbold, Ohio, will work at Abb\u00e9 Pierre Emma\u00fcs Center in Esteville, France.<\/p>\n

Sophie Thomas<\/strong> of Westminster, Md., is going to the New Community Project in Harrisonburg, Va.<\/p>\n

Paul Zelder<\/strong> of Braunschweig, Germany, will work with Abode Services in Fremont, Calif.<\/p>\n

Four of the new BVS volunteers–Lena Deutschkaemer<\/strong> of Unterkirnach, Germany; Elena Hodapp<\/strong> of Sasbach, Germany; Merle Koester<\/strong> of Koenigslutter, Germany; and Krista Mauger<\/strong> of Mechanic Grove Church of the Brethren in Quarryville, Pa.–are all going to work at the Family Abuse Center in Waco, Texas.<\/p>\n

For more about Brethren Volunteer Service go to www.brethren.org\/bvs<\/a> .<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Brethren Volunteer Service (BVS) Unit 299 completed orientation on Sept. 16-Oct. 5. The fall orientation was held at the Brethren Service Center in New Windsor, Md. Following are the new volunteers, their home congregations or home towns, and the projects where they will serve through BVS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"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":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[68],"wf_post_folders":[],"class_list":["post-5550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-brethren-volunteer-service"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5550","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5551,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5550\/revisions\/5551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5550"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=5550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}