{"id":3111,"date":"2021-10-12T16:07:59","date_gmt":"2021-10-12T16:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/?p=3111"},"modified":"2021-10-12T16:53:37","modified_gmt":"2021-10-12T16:53:37","slug":"dixon-franklin-grove-celebrate-peace-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/2021\/10\/12\/dixon-franklin-grove-celebrate-peace-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Dixon, Franklin Grove celebrate Peace Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By <em>Diana Verhulst<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"453\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2021\/10\/Franklin-Grove-Peace-Day.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3112\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2021\/10\/Franklin-Grove-Peace-Day.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2021\/10\/Franklin-Grove-Peace-Day-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2021\/10\/Franklin-Grove-Peace-Day-560x423.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Franklin Grove (Ill.) Church of the Brethren honored the International Day of Peace through a special Sunday service and by giving away grant-funded, custom-made peace bookmarks and Dove-brand mini ice cream bars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Peace Day this year was Tuesday, Sept. 21, and on that day members of the church were stationed at Casey\u2019s General Store in Franklin Grove, on the Lincoln Highway, to give away ice cream and bookmarks featuring scriptures of peace and church contact information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dixoncob.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dixon (Ill.) Church of the Brethren<\/a> collaborated with Franklin Grove. Their giveaway was the same day at Oliver\u2019s Corner Market in Dixon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thrivent provided grant funds for the events\u2019 expenses. This year, the day had special meaning; church member and Dixon businessman Ken Novak, who died in July, had asked as one of his last wishes to the church that they do more to promote peace this year than ever before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition, the Franklin Grove congregation held a special Peace Service on Sept. 19, which featured music and messages about nonviolence and the larger church\u2019s overall work toward peace worldwide. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"geodir-embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Peace Sunday 2021, &quot;Brothers All Are We.&quot;\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8QCa4jPot7w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption>Peace Sunday service<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Finally, the members planted lily-of-the-valley seeds to represent how disciples of Jesus spread among the nations in ancient times, and created a peace sign formation with pinwheels in the church\u2019s front yard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Franklin Grove Church of the Brethren established itself in 1845; Dixon Church of the Brethren opened its doors in 1908.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The In<a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/en\/observances\/international-day-peace\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ternational Day of Peace<\/a> was established in 1981 by the United Nations. The 2021 theme for this year\u2019s International Day of Peace was \u201cRecovering better for an equitable and sustainable world.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For more information, call lay pastor Diana Verhulst at 815-456-2422.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Story from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/\">Newsline<\/a>. Sign up to receive Church of the Brethren news at\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/brethren.us4.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=fe053219fdb661c00183423ef&amp;id=ad38c0837a\" target=\"_blank\">www.brethren.org\/intouch<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Franklin Grove and Dixon Church of the Brethren both gave away ice cream and custom-made peace bookmarks for the International Day of Peace. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3112,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[246,1],"tags":[191,192,193,194,195,196],"class_list":["post-3111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-illinois-and-wisconsin","category-uncategorized","tag-06-080","tag-06-100","tag-dixon-church-of-the-brethren","tag-franklin-grove-church-of-the-brethre","tag-international-day-of-peace","tag-peace"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}