{"id":4127,"date":"2015-05-29T10:34:06","date_gmt":"2015-05-29T15:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brethren.org\/?p=4127"},"modified":"2015-05-29T10:34:06","modified_gmt":"2015-05-29T15:34:06","slug":"eyn-pastors-wives-conference-a-joyful-reunion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/2015\/05\/29\/eyn-pastors-wives-conference-a-joyful-reunion\/","title":{"rendered":"EYN Pastor\u2019s Wives\u2019 Conference, A Joyful Reunion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<strong>EYN Pastor\u2019s Wives\u2019 Conference, A Joyful Reunion<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4128\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4128\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blog\/?attachment_id=4128\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4128\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4128\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pastors-Wives-Conference-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"EYN Pastor's Wives Conference\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4128\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">EYN Pastor&#8217;s Wives Conference<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>by Peggy Faw Gish<\/p>\n<p>The Jos church sanctuary was packed once again, this time with women all in similar yellow-patterned clothing, with \u201cEYN Pastors\u2019 Wives\u201d written on it in Hausa and English, for the annual Pastors\u2019 Wives Annual Conference. Lively chatter filled the hallways and the churchyard during the breaks as hundreds of women milled around reuniting with each other.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow to Overcome Crisis,\u201d was the theme of the conference and of the bible studies and discussions led by Sister Rebecca Dali.\u00a0 She looked at many scripture passages that focus on the inevitability of suffering and ways of dealing with it.\u00a0 Then she applied what was reading to the threat of Boko Haram, with even some practical advice about things a person should take with them if they need to flee immediate threat. When women asked questions about whether we are expected to forgive and try to live again aside of people who wronged them, her answer was an emphatic, \u201cYes!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One sister gave an emotional prayer, crying, and calling on God to help us not just focus on the evils of Boko Haram, but to change our own hearts and root out the envy, selfishness, greed, hatred, and other seeds of violence in our lives.<\/p>\n<p>Another woman I greeted told me that she saw friends here she hadn\u2019t seen for a long time.\u00a0&#8220;Because of the disastrous times we\u2019ve been through,&#8221; she said, &#8220;I didn\u2019t know if some of these friends were still alive or not until we met again here. And that makes this\u00a0reunion a particularly joyful one!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EYN Pastor\u2019s Wives\u2019 Conference, A Joyful Reunion by Peggy Faw Gish The Jos church sanctuary was packed once again, this time with women all in similar yellow-patterned clothing, with \u201cEYN Pastors\u2019 Wives\u201d written on it in Hausa and English, for the annual Pastors\u2019 Wives Annual Conference. Lively chatter filled the hallways and the churchyard during<\/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":[370,419,813,921,1220],"class_list":["post-4127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nigeria","tag-ekklesiyar-yanuwa-a-nigeria","tag-eyn","tag-nigeria","tag-prayer","tag-womens-conference"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4127","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=4127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}