Brethren Volunteer Service Unit 307 begins service

Brethren Volunteer Service (BVS) Unit 307 has completed its orientation and the volunteers have been placed at their projects. This Fall unit held orientation on Sept. 28-Oct. 17 at the Brethren Service Center in New Windsor, Md. The volunteers, their home congregations or hometowns, and project placements follow:

Photo courtesy of BVS

The volunteers in BVS Unit 307: (first row, from left) Felix Pfeiffer, Immanuel Fuchs, Janet Stann, Kristen Hoffman, Katie Furrow; (second row) Ron Gruici, Severin Baumann, Andrea Keller, Taylor Kaase, Hannah Cherry, Jesse Winter; (third row) Denise DeGeorge, Carmen Shuman, Laura Whitman, Hannah Shultz, Aidan Ottoni-Wilhelm, Victoria Ebert.

• Severin Baumann of Rottweil-Goellsdorf, Germany, and Immanuel Fuchs of Hamburg, Germany, to Project PLASE in Baltimore, Md.
• Hannah Cherry of Chambersburg (Pa.) Church of the Brethren and Victoria Ebert of Berlin, Germany, to Abode Services in Fremont, Calif.
• Katie Furrow of Monte Vista Church of the Brethren in Callaway, Va., to the Church of the Brethren Office of Public Witness in Washington, D.C.
• Denise DeGeorge of Lemont, Pa., and Ron Gruici of Lemont, Pa., to the San Diego (Calif.) Friends Center.
• Kristen Hoffman of McPherson (Kan.) Church of the Brethren to the Church of the Brethren Youth and Young Adult Ministries in Elgin, Ill.
• Taylor Kaase of Williamson Road Church of the Brethren in Roanoke, Va., to Cross Keys Village in New Oxford, Pa.
• Andrea Keller of Troy (Ohio) Church of the Brethren to the Rural and Migrant Ministry in Liberty, N.Y.
• Aidan Ottoni-Wilhelm of Richmond (Ind.) Church of the Brethren to the Palms Retirement Community in Sebring, Fla.
• Felix Pfeiffer of Muenster, Germany, to Lancaster (Pa.) Area Habitat for Humanity.
• Hannah Shultz of Lutherville, Md., to the Church of the Brethren Workcamp Ministry in Elgin, Ill.
• Carmen Shuman of Ephrata, Pa., to Camp Eder in Fairfield, Pa.
• Janet Stann of La Grange, Ind., to Human Solutions in Portland, Ore.
• Laura Whitman of Palmyra (Pa.) Church of the Brethren to the Church of the Brethren Congregational Life Ministries in Elgin, Ill.
• Jesse Winter of Westminster (Md.) Church of the Brethren to SnowCap in Fairview, Ore.

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

Source: 10/22/2014 Newsline