Uploaded February 2013 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago
Brethren Volunteer Service has just completed the training of its 300th unit of volunteers. Since its beginnings in 1948, nearly 8,000 volunteers have accepted placements in projects serving human need, advocating for justice, working for peace and assisting to care for the Creation. Volunteers have accepted assignments in the United States as well as about 15 countries, worldwide.
"Brethren Voices" host, Brent Carlson on one of his travels to Japan, interviews BVS Volunteer, Rachel Buller of Homer, Georgia. Rachel is the first BVS'er to serve at the Asian Rural Institute in Nasushiobara, Japan. The institute teaches sustainable organic farming to the grassroots leaders of marginalized countries. They come to the institute from many different countries for the 9-month-training. At the heart of the program is the concept of 'Foodlife' -- a term designed to recognize and value the Interdependence between life and the food that sustains all of life.
The Asian Rural Institute is one of two BVS projects in Japan. BVS volunteers also serve at the World Friendship Center in Hiroshima, Japan, advocating for a world without nuclear weapons.
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Category: Education, ID: BV 13-02
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TAGS: Brethren, Brethren Volunteer Service, Asian Rural Institute, Organic, Peace, Foodlife, Interdependence, Human Need, Justice, Grassroots, Marginalized, Japan, Volunteer, Service, Farming, Sustainable, Nasushiobara, Japan, Volunteer Opportunities, Sustainable Food Production, Peace Making, Organic Farming, World Friendship Center, Hiroshima, Nuclear Weapons
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This film is available for any Public Access TV station in the country - and world - to broadcast. Phone your local public access TV station and ask them to broadcast this film. The station can download the film from PEGMedia.org for broadcast to your local community.
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For more Brethren Voices Films see: brethrenvoices.at7c.com
Brethren Volunteer Service has just completed the training of its 300th unit of volunteers. Since its beginnings in 1948, nearly 8,000 volunteers have accepted placements in projects serving human need, advocating for justice, working for peace and assisting to care for the Creation. Volunteers have accepted assignments in the United States as well as about 15 countries, worldwide.
"Brethren Voices" host, Brent Carlson on one of his travels to Japan, interviews BVS Volunteer, Rachel Buller of Homer, Georgia. Rachel is the first BVS'er to serve at the Asian Rural Institute in Nasushiobara, Japan. The institute teaches sustainable organic farming to the grassroots leaders of marginalized countries. They come to the institute from many different countries for the 9-month-training. At the heart of the program is the concept of 'Foodlife' -- a term designed to recognize and value the Interdependence between life and the food that sustains all of life.
The Asian Rural Institute is one of two BVS projects in Japan. BVS volunteers also serve at the World Friendship Center in Hiroshima, Japan, advocating for a world without nuclear weapons.
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Category: Education, ID: BV 13-02
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TAGS: Brethren, Brethren Volunteer Service, Asian Rural Institute, Organic, Peace, Foodlife, Interdependence, Human Need, Justice, Grassroots, Marginalized, Japan, Volunteer, Service, Farming, Sustainable, Nasushiobara, Japan, Volunteer Opportunities, Sustainable Food Production, Peace Making, Organic Farming, World Friendship Center, Hiroshima, Nuclear Weapons
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This film is available for any Public Access TV station in the country - and world - to broadcast. Phone your local public access TV station and ask them to broadcast this film. The station can download the film from PEGMedia.org for broadcast to your local community.
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For more Brethren Voices Films see: brethrenvoices.at7c.com
