{"id":8640,"date":"2014-06-11T00:00:58","date_gmt":"2014-06-11T00:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.brethren.org\/news\/?p=8640"},"modified":"2018-11-03T20:22:26","modified_gmt":"2018-11-03T20:22:26","slug":"bvsers-serving-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2014\/bvsers-serving-in-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Brethren Volunteer Service Workers Are in Five Nations Across Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo by Kristin Flory<\/small>
BVSers working in the Balkans, in a photo taken in December 2013: (from left) Stephanie Barras, Julianne Funk, and Julia Schmidt.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Fifteen Brethren Volunteer Service (BVS) workers are serving in five nations across Europe. Here is an update on BVS project sites in Europe, where three volunteers are the first to serve in new projects for the program. The following listing is provided with help from Kristin Flory of the BVS staff, who works in the Brethren Service Europe office in Geneva, Switzerland:<\/p>\n

In Bosnia-Herzegovina, Stephanie Barras<\/strong> is serving in Mostar with the OKC Abrasevic Youth Cultural Center. The project is described as a place \u201cwhere everyone can drink coffee, see films, and attend concerts together regardless of ethnicity.\u201d<\/p>\n

In Croatia, Julianne Funk<\/strong> works for the Ecumenical Women\u2019s Initiative in Omis, which grants funds to and networks with women\u2019s groups in the Western Balkans. She concludes her assignment at the end of June.<\/p>\n

Also in Croatia, Julia Schmidt<\/strong> is in an interim assignment in Osijek, with plans to return home in mid-summer.<\/p>\n

In Germany, Marie Schuster<\/strong> is in Hamburg living and working with the Brot und Rosen Community, a house of hospitality for homeless refugees.<\/p>\n

In Ireland, Margaret Hughes<\/strong> and Craig Morphew<\/strong> live and work in two of the four houses of L\u2019Arche Community in Cork. L\u2019Arche is French for \u201cthe ark,\u201d and is a community for people living with disabilities.<\/p>\n

Also in Ireland, Rosemary Sorg<\/strong> is in Callan with L\u2019Arche Kilkenny Community.<\/p>\n

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Photo by Kristin Flory<\/small>
BVSers working in Northern Ireland, in a photo take in early April 2014: (from left) Megan Miller, Emma Berkey, Megan Haggerty, Andrew Kurtz, Becky Snell, Hannah Button-Harrison, and Hannah Monroe.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Eight BVS volunteers are working in Northern Ireland:<\/p>\n

Andrew Kurtz<\/strong> and Becky Snell<\/strong> work with children at the Quaker Cottage cross community family center in Belfast.<\/p>\n

Hannah Monroe<\/strong> lives and works and gardens with L\u2019Arche Community in Belfast.<\/p>\n

Sarah Caldwell<\/strong> just arrived in Belfast for a new BVS project site called Journey Towards Healing.<\/p>\n

Megan Miller<\/strong> and Hannah Button-Harrison<\/strong> work with \u201cCompass,\u201d the family and community department of the Methodist Church\u2019s East Belfast Mission.<\/p>\n

Megan Haggerty<\/strong> in Richhill, County Armagh, is the first BVS volunteer with Enable, which offers activities and respite weekends to people with intellectual disabilities.<\/p>\n

Emma Berkey<\/strong> is the first BVSer working with young people in Downpatrick, with the Youth Initiatives project.<\/p>\n

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

Fifteen Brethren Volunteer Service (BVS) workers are serving in five nations across Europe. Here is an update on BVS project sites in Europe, where three volunteers are the first to serve in new projects for the program. The following listing is provided with help from Kristin Flory of the BVS staff, who works in the Brethren Service Europe office in Geneva, Switzerland:<\/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":[68,1263],"wf_post_folders":[],"class_list":["post-8640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-brethren-volunteer-service","tag-peace"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8640","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=8640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8643,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8640\/revisions\/8643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8640"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=8640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}