{"id":3181,"date":"2021-12-22T16:33:42","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T16:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/?p=3181"},"modified":"2021-12-22T16:33:44","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T16:33:44","slug":"warrensburg-church-hosts-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/2021\/12\/22\/warrensburg-church-hosts-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"Warrensburg Church hosts celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/warrensburgcob.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Warrensburg (Mo.) Church of the Brethren<\/a> in early November hosted a celebration of minister emeritus Ethmer Erisman\u2019s 97th birthday and the 77th year of Heifer International\u2019s ministry to end hunger and poverty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a report in the Missouri and Arkansas District newsletter, LuRae Shreves and Pearl Miller wrote that Erisman celebrates his birthday every year with \u201chis traditional gift of seed money for Heifer International! Every year around his birthday, he challenges the congregation to \u2018pass on the gift\u2019 with him\u2026. This year, Pastor Ethmer, with the help of three of our teens, passed out donation boxes for Heifer International. Each box contained a generous gift to the recipients with the hope that the recipients would consider their own donation to Heifer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cA total of $1,068 was raised through his birthday gift! Also, as part of that birthday celebration, Ethmer preached the sermon, \u2018Love Will Find a Way.\u2019\u201d<\/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=\"600\" height=\"599\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2021\/12\/WarrensburgHeiferBirthdayEvent-photosbyReneeStaabandPastorBeckyCrouse.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3182\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2021\/12\/WarrensburgHeiferBirthdayEvent-photosbyReneeStaabandPastorBeckyCrouse.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2021\/12\/WarrensburgHeiferBirthdayEvent-photosbyReneeStaabandPastorBeckyCrouse-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2021\/12\/WarrensburgHeiferBirthdayEvent-photosbyReneeStaabandPastorBeckyCrouse-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2021\/12\/WarrensburgHeiferBirthdayEvent-photosbyReneeStaabandPastorBeckyCrouse-560x559.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption><em>Photos of Warrensburg Church of the Brethren celebration by Renee Staab and pastor Becky Crouse, courtesy of Missouri and Arkansas District<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\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>Warrensburg Church of the Brethren hosted a celebration of minister emeritus Ethmer Erisman\u2019s 97th birthday and the 77th year of Heifer International\u2019s ministry to end hunger and poverty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3182,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[284,287,288,286,252,285],"class_list":["post-3181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-missouri-and-arkansas","tag-23-125","tag-birthday","tag-celebration","tag-heifer-international","tag-missouri-and-arkansas-district","tag-warrensburg-church-of-the-brethren"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3181","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=3181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}