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Brethren Volunteer Service (BVS) is marked by two key milestones in 2013: the 65th anniversary of the program\u2019s enactment by Annual Conference, and the volunteer Unit 300.<\/p>\nBrethren Volunteer Service (BVS) is marked by two key milestones in 2013: the 65th anniversary of the program\u2019s enactment by Annual Conference, and the volunteer Unit 300.<\/p>\n
Starting orientation at Camp Ithiel in Florida on Sunday, Unit 300 is composed of eight volunteers. The new unit will complete orientation on Feb. 15. BVS friends and alumni are invited to a potluck with Unit 300 at Camp Ithiel at 6 p.m. on Feb. 5.<\/p>\n
The new recruits bring to approximately 7,000 the number of individuals who have entered BVS since its inaugural in 1948. Currently 80 BVS workers are on assignment throughout the US and in a number of countries around the world including Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, El Salvador, France, Germany, Guatemala, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Japan, and South Sudan. Four are based at the Church of the Brethren General Offices in Elgin, Ill., serving in the workcamp ministry, the Youth and Young Adult Office, and in the BVS office.<\/p>\n
Establishing a record at the BVS helm is Dan McFadden, who has begun his 18th year as director. Of the 10 leaders who have headed the program, McFadden holds by far the longest tenure. His staff coworkers include Kristin Flory, who has served for 25 years as coordinator of Brethren Service in Europe; Callie Surber, who has served for five years as coordinator of orientation; Todd Bauer, representing BVS in Latin America; and Emily Tyler, BVS recruitment staff who also is coordinator of the workcamp ministry.<\/p>\n
BVS directors since 1948<\/strong> (although all who held this position directed BVS, the title has varied over the years): BVS orientation or training leaders since 1948:<\/strong> — Howard Royer is retired from many years on the staff of the Church of the Brethren. He wrote this article originally for the Highland Avenue Church of the Brethren newsletter. Dan McFadden provided the lists of BVS directors and orientation\/training leaders.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Brethren Volunteer Service (BVS) is marked by two key milestones in 2013: the 65th anniversary of the program\u2019s enactment by Annual Conference, and the volunteer Unit 300.<\/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-6035","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\/6035","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=6035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6037,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6035\/revisions\/6037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6035"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=6035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nOra Huston, 1948-59
\nJoel Thompson, 1960
\nRodney Davis, 1961-64
\nWilbur Mullen, 1965-69
\nCharles Boyer, 1970-76
\nJoanne Nesler, 1977-80
\nJoyce Stolzfus, 1981-87
\nJan Schrock, 1987-94
\nIvan Fry (interim), 1994-95
\nDan McFadden, 1995 to present.<\/p>\n
\nEd Crill, 1948-51
\nRodney Davis, 1951-52
\nDale Aukerman, 1952-53
\nIvan Fry, 1953-57
\nRobert Mock, 1958-60
\nAlbert Huston, 1961
\nDon Snider, 1961-69
\nRon Hanft, 1969-73
\nWillard Dulabaum, 1974-77
\nJan Mason, 1977-79
\nBeverly Weaver, 1979-83
\nJoe Detrick, 1984-88
\nDebbie Eisenbise, 1989-92
\nTammy Krause, 1992-94
\nTodd Reish, 1994-98
\nSue Grubb, 1998-2002
\nKaren Roberts, 2002-04
\nGenelle Wine, 2004-07
\nCallie Surber, 2007 to present.<\/p>\n