{"id":11373,"date":"2016-06-11T00:00:30","date_gmt":"2016-06-11T00:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.brethren.org\/news\/?p=11373"},"modified":"2018-11-03T20:27:35","modified_gmt":"2018-11-03T20:27:35","slug":"on-earth-peace-peace-day-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2016\/on-earth-peace-peace-day-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"On Earth Peace Announces Theme for Peace Day 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11374\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11374\" style=\"width: 322px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/10\/called-to-build-peace-peace-day-2016.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"322\" height=\"322\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/10\/called-to-build-peace-peace-day-2016.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/10\/called-to-build-peace-peace-day-2016-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/10\/called-to-build-peace-peace-day-2016-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/10\/called-to-build-peace-peace-day-2016-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 322px) 100vw, 322px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11374\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><small>Image courtesy of On Earth Peace<\/small><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"lead\">\u201cCalled to Build Peace\u201d is the theme for Peace Day 2016, held annually on Sept. 21, which is the International Day of Prayer for Peace. This year\u2019s campaign from On Earth Peace invites churches, peacebuilders, and seekers of justice to participate. \u201cPlan a prayer service or community action event and reflect on how you and your community are called to build peace during the week surrounding Sept. 21, 2016,\u201d said an invitation from organizer Bryan Hanger.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s theme is based on God\u2019s call to build peace and create just communities in the biblical story, including the story of Abraham\u2019s call in Genesis 12:1-3, Moses\u2019 call in Exodus 3, Samuel\u2019s call in 1 Samuel 3, Esther\u2019s call in Esther 4:14, Mary\u2019s call in Luke 1:26-55, and Jesus\u2019 call in Luke 4:18-19.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLike our spiritual forebears, we are all called to different places and to different ministries to do God\u2019s work and to bring God\u2019s peace and justice in the world,\u201d said the announcement. \u201cWe are each called to build peace in a unique way and in a unique place. Some are called to resist and undo racism, some to pray without ceasing, others to heal God\u2019s creation, and others to stop war. Some are called to build peace in their neighborhood, in their church congregation, in their local community, or somewhere across the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are all called to build peace in unique and transformative ways, and this Peace Day we invite you to follow God\u2019s call to wherever you and your church community can build peace together to God&#8217;s glory and your neighbor\u2019s good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Church of the Brethren members and congregations are invited to learn more about Peace Day and get involved by telling the organizers what the congregation is planning, and what would be helpful.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>The e-mail address for the 2016 campaign is <a href=\"mailto:peaceday@onearthpeace.org\">peaceday@onearthpeace.org<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p>Find out more at <a href=\"http:\/\/peacedaypray.tumblr.com\">http:\/\/peacedaypray.tumblr.com<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p>On Twitter, follow @peacedaypray .<\/p>\n<p>Join the Peace Day Facebook group conversation at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/OEP.PeaceDay\">www.facebook.com\/groups\/OEP.PeaceDay<\/a> .<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cCalled to Build Peace\u201d is the theme for Peace Day 2016, held annually on Sept. 21, which is the International Day of Prayer for Peace. This year\u2019s campaign from On Earth Peace invites churches, peacebuilders, and seekers of justice to participate. \u201cPlan a prayer service or community action event and reflect on how you and your community are called to build peace during the week surrounding Sept. 21, 2016,\u201d said an invitation from organizer Bryan Hanger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103,1263],"wf_post_folders":[],"class_list":["post-11373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-on-earth-peace","tag-peace"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11375,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11373\/revisions\/11375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11373"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=11373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}