{"id":3557,"date":"2015-02-02T14:15:09","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T19:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brethren.org\/?p=3557"},"modified":"2015-02-02T14:15:09","modified_gmt":"2015-02-02T19:15:09","slug":"stories-from-nigeria-churches-what-a-difference-a-year-makes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/2015\/02\/02\/stories-from-nigeria-churches-what-a-difference-a-year-makes\/","title":{"rendered":"Stories from Nigeria: Churches \u2013 What a difference a year makes"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tBy Roxane Hill, co-director of Nigeria Crisis Response<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Michika<\/a>
EYN church dedication outside of Michika. Photo Credit: Carl & Roxane Hill<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On a bright sunny day last February, Carl and I attended a dedication service for a new church (Local Church Branch) of Ekklesiyar Yan\u2019uwa a Nigeria (EYN, the Church of the Brethren in Nigeria) just outside of Michika. The atmosphere was festive and the people were excited to imagine what God would do at this new church. There were so many of us at the dedication that we had to gather outside for the prayer.<\/p>\n

\"Michika<\/a>
Photo courtesy of EYN Nigeria.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

 <\/p>\n

Fast forward to the outlook today. – The church branch has been burned, the roof caved in and the people who would have attended have been displaced. But\u2026 God is still sovereign and he knows the past, present, and what the future holds. Despite the devastation and destruction, God\u2019s people will continue to meet where they can.<\/p>\n

\"Michika
Burned EYN church outside of Michika. Photo courtesy of EYN Nigeria<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

 <\/p>\n

On Christmas Day 2014, in Mubi, a town 60 miles from Michika, displaced persons returned and held a service outside their burned church.<\/p>\n

With the Nigerians, we continue to pray and we continue to put our hope in Jesus Christ.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Christmas<\/a>
Christmas Service outside of a burned church in Mubi. Photo courtesy of EYN Nigeria.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Roxane Hill, co-director of Nigeria Crisis Response On a bright sunny day last February, Carl and I attended a dedication service for a new church (Local Church Branch) of Ekklesiyar Yan\u2019uwa a Nigeria (EYN, the Church of the Brethren in Nigeria) just outside of Michika. The atmosphere was festive and the people were excited<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[228,235,370,419,771,813,814,1106],"class_list":["post-3557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nigeria","tag-christmas","tag-churches","tag-ekklesiyar-yanuwa-a-nigeria","tag-eyn","tag-mubi","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-crisis","tag-stories-from-nigeria"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}