{"id":6891,"date":"2013-08-22T00:00:27","date_gmt":"2013-08-22T00:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.brethren.org\/news\/?p=6891"},"modified":"2018-11-13T02:51:03","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T02:51:03","slug":"301st-unit-of-bvs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2013\/301st-unit-of-bvs\/","title":{"rendered":"The 301st Unit of Brethren Volunteer Service Begins Work"},"content":{"rendered":"
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BVS Unit 301: (first row from left) Sarah Ullom-Minnich, Esther Kilian, Julia Schmidt, Lina Herrmann, Nora Boston, Amanda Strott, Deborah Schlenger, Mark Pickens; (second row, from left) Tim Heishman, Shino Furukawa, Luke Baldwin, Charlotte Rutkowski, Whitnee Hidalgo, Sarah Neher, Stephanie Barras, Dylan Ford; (third row, from left) Andrew Kurtz, Mandy Witherspoon, Jess Rinehart, Chris Luzynski, Johann Toelle, Tobias Domke, Jan Fahrenholz, Turner Ritchie.<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

The volunteers in Brethren Volunteer Service (BVS) Unit 301 completed their orientation on July 16-Aug. 3 at the Brethren Service Center in New Windsor, Md. The members of the unit, home congregations or home towns, and project placements follow:<\/p>\n

Luke Baldwin<\/strong> of First Church of the Brethren in York, Pa., is working at the Brethren Service Center in New Windsor, Md.<\/p>\n

Stephanie Barras<\/strong> of Indianapolis, Ind., is going to OKC Abrasevic in Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina.<\/p>\n

Nora Boston<\/strong> of Bonn, Germany, is serving at the Capital Area Food Bank in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n

Tobias Domke<\/strong> of Castrop-Rauxel, Germany, and Jan Fahrenholz<\/strong> of Westerkappeln, Germany, are going to Project PLASE in Baltimore, Md.<\/p>\n

Dylan Ford<\/strong> of Tipton, Ind., and Sarah Ullom-Minnich<\/strong> of McPherson (Kan.) Church of the Brethren, are serving at Su Casa Catholic Worker in Chicago, Ill.<\/p>\n

Shino Furukawa<\/strong> of Mutterstadt, Germany, is serving at Innisfree Village in Crozet, Va.<\/p>\n

Tim Heishman<\/strong> of West Charleston Church of the Brethren in Tipp City, Ohio, and Sarah Neher<\/strong> of McPherson (Kan.) Church of the Brethren, are working with the Church of the Brethren Youth and Young Adult Ministry serving as two of the three coordinators for the 2014 National Youth Conference, along with Katie Cummings.<\/p>\n

Lina Herrmann<\/strong> of Luedenscheid, Germany, is serving at Human Solutions in Portland, Ore.<\/p>\n

Whitnee Hidalgo<\/strong> of St. Clair, Mich., will work with Sisters of the Road in Portland, Ore.<\/p>\n

Esther Kilian<\/strong> of Koblenz, Germany, is serving at Interfaith Hospitality Network in Cincinnati, Ohio.<\/p>\n

Andrew Kurtz<\/strong> of Plymouth (Ind.) Church of the Brethren, will be volunteering with Quaker Cottage in Belfast, Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n

Chris Luzynski<\/strong> of Roanoke, Va., is going to the Brethren Disaster Ministries office in New Windsor, Md.<\/p>\n

Mark Pickens<\/strong> of Mechanicsburg (Pa.) Church of the Brethren is serving at CrossKeys Village in New Oxford, Pa.<\/p>\n

Jess Rinehart<\/strong> of Granger, Ind., will serve in Central America.<\/p>\n

Turner Ritchie<\/strong> of Richmond (Ind.) Church of the Brethren, will serve in an interim assignment at the Brethren Service Center in Maryland, and then will go to the Asian Rural Institute in Tochigi-ken, Japan.<\/p>\n

Charlotte Rutkowski<\/strong> of Hanover (Pa.) Church of the Brethren, is going to the Family Abuse Center in Waco, Texas.<\/p>\n

Deborah Schlenger<\/strong> of Paderborn-Wewe, Germany, is serving at Washington City (D.C.) Church of the Brethren.<\/p>\n

Julia Schmidt<\/strong> of Pandora, Ohio, is serving temporarily at the BVS office in Elgin, Ill., with plans to go to RAND in Zagreb, Croatia.<\/p>\n

Johann Toelle<\/strong> of Muenster, Germany, is volunteering with Lancaster (Pa.) Area Habitat for Humanity.<\/p>\n

Mandy Witherspoon<\/strong> of Columbus, N.C., will work at Gould Farm in Monterey, Mass.<\/p>\n

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

The volunteers in Brethren Volunteer Service (BVS) Unit 301 completed their orientation on July 16-Aug. 3 at the Brethren Service Center in New Windsor, Md. The members of the unit, home congregations or home towns, and project placements follow.<\/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":[582,68],"wf_post_folders":[],"class_list":["post-6891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-brethren-service-center","tag-brethren-volunteer-service"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6891","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=6891"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13289,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6891\/revisions\/13289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6891"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=6891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}