{"id":3174,"date":"2021-12-21T23:08:44","date_gmt":"2021-12-21T23:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/?p=3174"},"modified":"2021-12-21T23:10:17","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T23:10:17","slug":"ridgely-worships-with-neighbors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/2021\/12\/21\/ridgely-worships-with-neighbors\/","title":{"rendered":"Ridgely worships with neighbors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>On a Sunday last September, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ridgelycob\" target=\"_blank\">Ridgely (Md.) Church of the Brethren<\/a> walked across the street to join the service at Jericho Faith Deliverance Church, with Brethren pastor Ken George giving the sermon. The favor was returned in October when Jericho joined Ridgely in worship, with Phyllis Duckery of the Ridgely congregation providing the sermon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although the churches have different styles of worship, they recognize that what\u2019s important is who we worship. In that regard, the churches are of one mind. Experiencing one another\u2019s worship builds a bridge that connects diversities and helps to foster understanding and a true fellowship in Christ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The churches hope to repeat this exchange and make it a regular event. \u2014Ken George<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"534\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2021\/12\/Ridgely-guest-pastor.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2021\/12\/Ridgely-guest-pastor.jpg 534w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2021\/12\/Ridgely-guest-pastor-300x237.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 534px) 100vw, 534px\" \/><figcaption><em>Pastor Phyllis Duckery giving the sermon at Ridgely Church of the Brethren in Maryland.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p> <em>This story first appeared in Messenger magazine. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/messenger\/subscribe\/\">Subscribe to Messenger here<\/a>.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experiencing one another\u2019s worship builds a bridge that connects diversities and helps to foster understanding and a true fellowship in Christ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3175,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[275,102,103,276],"class_list":["post-3174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mid-atlantic","tag-20-490","tag-maryland","tag-mid-atlantic-district","tag-ridgely-church-of-the-brethren"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3174","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=3174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}