{"id":9708,"date":"2015-02-24T00:00:09","date_gmt":"2015-02-24T00:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.brethren.org\/news\/?p=9708"},"modified":"2018-11-03T20:23:54","modified_gmt":"2018-11-03T20:23:54","slug":"tina-christian-to-cds-gulf-coast-coordinator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2015\/tina-christian-to-cds-gulf-coast-coordinator\/","title":{"rendered":"Tina Christian to Be Gulf Coast Coordinator for Children\u2019s Disaster Services"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9709\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9709\" style=\"width: 273px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9709\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/10\/tina-christian.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"273\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9709\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><small>Tina Christian<\/small><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Tina Christian has been named as the new part-time Gulf Coast coordinator for Children\u2019s Disaster Services (CDS), a ministry within Brethren Disaster Ministries. She will serve as an independent contractor committed to the ecumenical mission of CDS in the Gulf Coast. The Gulf Coast project of CDS is a partnership between the Church of the Brethren and the Disciples of Christ.<\/p>\n<p>Christian will work with CDS associate director Kathy Fry-Miller on expanding the work of Children\u2019s Disaster Services in the Gulf Coast states, including networking with faith-based, disaster response, and child-care contacts; setting up workshops; and developing new Rapid Response teams. She has experience in ecumenical work, volunteer management, training, and information technology support, and is bilingual in English and Spanish.<\/p>\n<p>She is a member of the Disciples of Christ and is serving as part-time associate pastor at Tropical Sands Christian Church in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., where she is active with a Family Promise program for those who are homeless. She also is working on a master of divinity degree.<\/p>\n<p>Her start date is March 6, and her first week with CDS will include attending a Training of Trainer&#8217;s session in southern California, on March 8-10. CDS also has a workshop scheduled in Boynton Beach, Fla., on April 24-25. The staff is eager to get more Gulf Coast trainings on the summer and fall schedule, and invites contacts from those who would like to host or co-host a training.<\/p>\n<p>Christian\u2019s e-mail address will be <a href=\"mailto:CDSgulfcoast@gmail.com\">CDSgulfcoast@gmail.com<\/a> . For more about the work of Children\u2019s Disaster Services go to <a href=\"..\/..\/..\/preview!www.brethren.org\/cds\">www.brethren.org\/cds<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212; Kathleen Fry-Miller is associate director of Children&#8217;s Disaster Services.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tina Christian has been named as the new part-time Gulf Coast coordinator for Children\u2019s Disaster Services (CDS), a ministry within Brethren Disaster Ministries. She will serve as an independent contractor committed to the ecumenical mission of CDS in the Gulf Coast. The Gulf Coast project of CDS is a partnership between the Church of the Brethren and the Disciples of Christ.<\/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":[456,1253,1410],"wf_post_folders":[],"class_list":["post-9708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-brethren-disaster-ministries","tag-cds","tag-tina-christian"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9708","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=9708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9710,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9708\/revisions\/9710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9708"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=9708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}