{"id":7676,"date":"2021-07-21T09:45:06","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T14:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.brethren.org\/?p=7676"},"modified":"2021-07-21T09:45:06","modified_gmt":"2021-07-21T14:45:06","slug":"ebrethren-7-21-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/2021\/07\/21\/ebrethren-7-21-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating the fruit of denominational ministries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t\t\t\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2021\/07\/GT2021-1-600w.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7678\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2021\/07\/GT2021-1-600w.png 600w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2021\/07\/GT2021-1-600w-300x100.png 300w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2021\/07\/GT2021-1-600w-560x187.png 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>By Traci Rabenstein, director of Mission Advancement<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cThis is to God\u2019s glory, that you bear much fruit,<br>showing yourselves to be my disciples.\u201d<br>&#8211; John 15:8, NIV modified<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thank you for your generous contributions to the Church of the Brethren. Overflowing with gratitude, we celebrate your partnership, which sustains our missions and ministries, and the fruit that we bear together in the name of Jesus for the glory of God.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Every gift is essential to the work of the Church of the Brethren. It is through the dedication of&nbsp;faithful people of passion like you that we serve across the US and around the world, bearing fruit&nbsp;in the name of Jesus. We are grateful for your partnership, your generous giving, and your&nbsp;prayers for those who serve and are served. Together, we expand Christ\u2019s mission near and far&nbsp;by training disciples, developing and calling leaders, and transforming communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thank you again for partnering with us through your generous gifts and persistent prayers. We are so thankful for you. Together we continue the work of Jesus!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Learn how your gifts do great things at <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/missionadvancement\/greatthings\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.brethren.org\/greatthings<\/a> or support the ministries of the Church of the Brethren at <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/churchofthebrethren.givingfuel.com\/all-ministries\" target=\"_blank\">www.brethren.org\/give<\/a>.<\/em><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2021\/07\/GT2021-2-600w.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7677\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2021\/07\/GT2021-2-600w.png 600w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2021\/07\/GT2021-2-600w-300x100.png 300w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/39\/2021\/07\/GT2021-2-600w-560x187.png 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>(<a href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/brethren.org\/ebrethren7-21-2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Read this issue of eBrethren (opens in a new tab)\">Read this issue of eBrethren<\/a>.)\ufeff<\/em><\/p>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tRead words of gratitude from Traci Rabenstein in this week&#8217;s issue of eBrethren.\t\t<\/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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ebrethren"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7676","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=7676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/blogtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}