Genelle Wine will serve as BVS coordinator of orientation.

Genelle Wine, of Imperial, Neb., has accepted the position of coordinator of orientation for Brethren Volunteer Service. Currently living and studying in Germany, she previously served two years as a BVS volunteer, one of those years as assistant to the director of BVS.

Wine is a graduate of McPherson (Kan.) College and is completing an intensive German language study program at Multi Lingua in Bayreuth, Germany, while she works as an au-pair with a German family. She also was a participant in Up with People in 1998-99, and has served as a houseparent in a BVS project, Casa de Esperanza de los Ninos in Houston, Texas. She is a member of Enders (Neb.) Church of the Brethren.

Wine will begin her work with the General Board in August and will be based at the Church of the Brethren General Offices in Elgin, Ill.

Source: Newsline 4/30/2004 top