Wittmeyer to serve as executive for Global Mission Partnerships.

Jay Wittmeyer has resigned as director of the Brethren Pension Plan and employee financial services for Brethren Benefit Trust (BBT), to accept the position of executive director of the Church of the Brethren's Global Mission Partnerships, effective Jan. 5, 2009.

Wittmeyer has served as director of the Brethren Pension Plan and employee financial services for BBT since Jan. 1. Prior to that, he served BBT for 14 months as manager of publications. He concludes his service with BBT on Dec. 31.

He brings a wide range of work experience to the executive position with Global Mission Partnerships, including experience working with Mennonite Central Committee in Nepal and Bangladesh, and as assistant director at the Lombard (Ill.) Mennonite Peace Center. Most notably, his background includes conflict management coaching and congregational mediations for churches and judicatories throughout the US.

Wittmeyer's educational background includes a master's degree in Teaching English as a Second Language from the University of Illinois, a master's degree in conflict transformation from Eastern Mennonite University, and he is a certified teacher for grades 6-12. He and his family attend Highland Avenue Church of the Brethren in Elgin, Ill.

Source: 11/5/2008 Newsline