PERSONNEL NOTES

Lisa Crouch has resigned as associate director of Children’s Disaster Services. She will conclude her work with the Brethren Service Center in New Windsor, Md., effective March 31. Lisa began her service on Aug. 27, 2018. Lisa feels led back to working directly with children again.

Lindsay Cart-Turner has accepted the position of operations manager, Organizational Investing and Deferred Gifts, for Eder Financial. She began her duties on Feb. 27. Cart-Turner holds a bachelor’s degree in education from Liberty University and a master’s degree in Public Affairs from O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs. She has previously served as a missionary in Brazil, where she led a volunteer teacher program and worked as a doula, and held more recent roles as a research assistant and analyst since returning to the US. She lives in Indianapolis, with her family and grew up in Christ Our Shepherd Church of the Brethren on the south side of Indianapolis. She currently attends Northview Church of the Brethren.

Walt Wiltschek has been hired by the Church of the Brethren as part-time Office Coordinator for Brethren Volunteer Service (BVS). Walt began working from the General Offices in Elgin, on March 7. He continues to serve half-time as the district executive minister of the Illinois/Wisconsin District. Prior to this, he was the pastor at Easton Church of the Brethren. Previously, he served as Director of News Services and editor of Messenger magazine from 2000 to 2010, when he took a position as Campus Pastor at Manchester University.

Nathan Polzin has been hired by the Church of the Brethren as executive director of Discipleship and Leadership Formation. From 2009 to 2017 he served as Michigan District’s executive minister. From 2007 to present, he has been instrumental in planting and pastoring The Church in Drive, a congregation serving Saginaw, Mich., and Saginaw Valley State University students. He also currently serves as the pastor of Midland (Mich.) Church of the Brethren. In the past, he has served congregations in Mount Pleasant, Mich., and Hagerstown, Ind. He also provides individual and group coaching, team building, training, and consulting services through Polzin Coaching and Consulting. Nathan is a graduate of Central Michigan University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Political Science, and of Bethany Theological Seminary with a Master of Divinity. Nathan will begin on April 10.