{"id":16840,"date":"2021-05-20T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/?p=16840"},"modified":"2021-05-20T22:19:55","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T22:19:55","slug":"church-members-invited-to-pray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2021\/church-members-invited-to-pray\/","title":{"rendered":"Church members are invited to sign up to pray for Annual Conference 2021"},"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\"><em>From the Annual Conference prayer coordinators<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prayer is already an important part of our preparation for and participation in all Annual Conference events. This year, however, we are seeking to blanket the entire event in prayer\u2026morning to night. The 2021 Church of the Brethren Annual Conference takes place as a virtual, online event on Wednesday through Sunday, June 30-July 4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Below, find the link to sign up to pray. Call your friends, make announcements at church, include the information in your bulletins so that others can sign up, too. The link below will take you to a webpage where you can choose a day and a portion of that day to hold Annual Conference in prayer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You will be asked to provide your name and contact information. Only the prayer coordinators will be able to see your information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.signupgenius.com\/go\/8050D49AEA62FA3FF2-2020\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"www.signupgenius.com\/go\/8050D49AEA62FA3FF2-2020\">www.signupgenius.com\/go\/8050D49AEA62FA3FF2-2020<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>&#8212; Lidia Gonzalez and Karen Cassell are the prayer coordinators for Annual Conference 2021. For more information about the Conference, go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brethren.org\/ac\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"www.brethren.org\/ac\">www.brethren.org\/ac<\/a>.<\/em><\/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-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/06\/2020-annual-conference-logo-1.gif\" alt=\"2020 Annual Conference Logo\" class=\"wp-image-14492\" \/><figcaption><em>The logo for Annual Conference 2021. Art by Timothy Botts<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2011\u2011\u2011\u2011\u2011\u2011\u2011\u2011\u2011\u2011<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Find more Church of the Brethren news:<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__list wp-block-latest-posts\"><li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/six-awards-from-associated-church-press\/\">Messenger and Communications receive six awards from the Associated Church Press<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/conscientious-objection-event-for-adults\/\">Virtual event for adults will follow on conscientious objection sessions for young people<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/world-refugee-day-service\/\">Deportation Defense Response invites participation in World Refugee Day Ecumenical Service<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/brethren-bits-111\/\">Brethren bits<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/jeff-thomson-to-direct-bdm\/\">Jeff Thomson hired to direct Brethren Disaster Ministries<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prayer is already an important part of our preparation for and participation in all Annual Conference events. This year, however, we are seeking to blanket the entire event in prayer\u2026morning to night. The 2021 Church of the Brethren Annual Conference takes place as a virtual, online event on Wednesday through Sunday, June 30-July 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":14492,"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":[1703],"tags":[1258,1771,3,1898],"wf_post_folders":[],"class_list":["post-16840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-church-of-the-brethren-newsline","tag-annual-conference","tag-annual-conference-2021","tag-church-of-the-brethren","tag-prayer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16840","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16840"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16845,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16840\/revisions\/16845"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16840"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=16840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}