Friday, November 19, 2004

Two Brethren Volunteer Service units complete orientation.

Brethren Volunteer Service Units 261 and 262 have completed orientation, with 30 volunteers beginning new projects across the US, Europe, Latin America, and Africa.



Brethren Revival Fellowship BVS Unit 261 completed orientation Sept. 1. Volunteers, their home churches or home towns and placements are: Amanda Akers of Welsh Run Church of the Brethren in St. Thomas, Pa., and Marian and Kevin Auker and their children Lynette, Holly, and Tyler of Blue Ball Church of the Brethren in Gap, Pa., to Good Shepherd Food Bank in Auburn, Maine; Jennifer Kennedy, Upton Church of the Brethren in Mercersburg, Pa., to Maine Area Home School in Lewiston, Maine; Rob Raker, Greencastle (Pa.) Church of the Brethren, to Brethren Mission House in Miami, Fla.



BVS Unit 262 completed orientation Oct. 15. Volunteers, their home churches or home towns and placements are: Rebecca Allen, Seattle, Wash., to CPR Sierra in Guatemala; Kandice Arwood, Ottawa, Ill., to GETO in Bosnia-Herzegovina; Christoph Baecker and Krista Kunkel-Baecker, Paderborn, Germany, to Hopewell Inn in Mesopotamia, Ohio; Missy Clements, Codorus Church of the Brethren in Loganville, Pa., to L'Arche Kilkenny in Ireland; Anji Couillard, White Bear Lake, Minn., to Trees for Life in Wichita, Kan.; Kevin Dibert, Chambersburg (Pa.) Church of the Brethren, and Sandee and Larry Kitzel, Monitor Church of the Brethren, Conway, Kan., to Brethren Disaster Response in New Windsor, Md.; Tara Failey, West Worthington, Ohio, to Pesticide Action Network in San Francisco, Calif.; Carolyn Gong, University Baptist and Brethren Church in State College, Pa., to Bridgeway in Lakewood, Colo.; Steph Hartley, Lewistown (Pa.) Church of the Brethren, to Ekklesiyar Yan'uwa a Nigeria (EYN the Church of the Brethren in Nigeria) Secondary School; Jenny Hartwell, Deltona, Fla., to Brethren Woods in Keezletown, Va.; Carmen Kingsley, Elkhart, Ind., to Emmaus Community in France; Andy Miracle, Bridgewater (Va.) Church of the Brethren, to the General Board's Brethren Witness/Washington Office in Washington D.C.; Melissa Neher, Santa Cruz, Calif., and Daniel Otten, Freising, Germany, to Camp Courageous in Monticello, Iowa; Oliver Peter, Hamburg, Germany, to CentrePeace in Bellefonte, Pa.; Philipp Pfefferle, Bad Krozingen, Germany, and Stephanie Speicher, Richmond, Ind., to Su Casa Catholic Worker House in Chicago, Ill.; Becky Snavely, Mountville, Pa., to Casa de Ezperanza de los Ninos in Houston, Texas; Michael Stover, Dayton, Va., to the Washington (D.C.) City Nutrition Program; Nicole Suiters, New Enterprise (Pa.) Church of the Brethren, to Friendship Day Care in Hutchinson, Kan.; Emily Wampler, Bridgewater (Va.) Church of the Brethren, to CooperRiis in Mill Spring, N.C.; Dana Young, Grace Church in Akron, Ohio, to L'Arche Dublin in Ireland.

Source: 11/19/2004 Newsline

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