BVS-BRF orientation unit completes training.

Photo by courtesy of BVS

The members of BVS-BRF Unit 298: (front from left) Hannah Wagner, Sandra Hughes, Sarah Bucher, Joe Fretz; (back from left) Peggy and Walter Heisey (orientation coordinators), Ross Gingrich, Joyelle Bollinger, Carol Fretz

Brethren Volunteer Service (BVS) unit 298, a unit held jointly with the Brethren Revival Fellowship (BRF), completed orientation on Aug. 19-28 at the Brethren Service Center in New Windsor, Md.

The seven new volunteers, their congregations or home towns, and project sites follow:

Joyelle Bollinger and Hannah Wagner of Cocalico Church of the Brethren in Denver, Pa., will serve with the Root Cellar in Lewiston, Maine.

Sarah Bucher of Heidelberg Church of the Brethren in Myerstown, Pa., is to work at the Maine Home School Project in Lewiston.

Carol Fretz and Joe Fretz of Cocalico Church of the Brethren in Denver, Pa., are going to Maine Ministries in Lewiston.

Ross Gingrich of Heidelberg Church of the Brethren, will work at the Good Shepherd Food Bank.

Sandra Hughes of Central, S.C., will go to Cross Keys Village Brethren Home in New Oxford, Pa.

For more about Brethren Volunteer Service go to www.brethren.org/bvs.

Source:9/20/2012 Newsline