{"id":24236,"date":"2024-08-30T17:06:35","date_gmt":"2024-08-30T17:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/?p=24236"},"modified":"2024-08-30T17:06:36","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T17:06:36","slug":"top-10-for-district-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2024\/top-10-for-district-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 reasons to attend your district conference"},"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\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Shared with permission from the Church of the Brethren\u2019s Missouri and Arkansas District, to inspire others to attend their own district conferences:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Top 10 Reasons to Attend the 2024 MO AR District Conference<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With apologies to those attending online who cannot enjoy some of these:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">10. Picking up lots of cool stuff and information at the booths and displays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">9. Hearing about what the denominational agencies are doing to help your congregation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">8. Growing in wisdom and in spirit as you learn from guest speakers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">7. Making new friends as you meet new people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">6. Eating the delicious food served by the Warrensburg congregation (maybe even some of Martha Louise\u2019s Gooseberry Pie?)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">5. Hearing what has happened this past year in your district.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">4. Meeting the 2025 Annual Conference moderator Dava Hensley and hearing her words from God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">3. Discussing the business of the district and making decisions which affect your district and congregation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2. Worshiping together and singing in four-part harmony.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1. AND, the number 1 reason will always be THE FELLOWSHIP with brothers and sisters in Christ!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Contact the district office to register today!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"356\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/08\/DistrictConf-600px.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24237\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>It is district conference &#8220;season&#8221; in the Church of the Brethren and although some districts have already held their 2024 conferences, many are still to come this fall. <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/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\/standing-committee-acts-on-new-business\/\">Standing Committee recommends adoption of four new business items, discusses relationship of the Church of the Brethren and Eder Financial<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/supreme-court-decision-on-tps\/\">Supreme Court decision on TPS for Haitians and Syrians will affect hundreds of Church of the Brethren members<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/kairos-center-issues-press-statement\/\">Kairos Center issues press statement on Supreme Court case in which Church of the Brethren joined amicus brief<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/board-approves-statement-of-intent\/\">Mission and Ministry Board approves statement of intent regarding future of the General Offices<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/intercultural-ministries-frontliners\/\">\u2018Frontliners\u2019 certified to serve in their districts on behalf of Intercultural Ministries<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shared with permission from the Church of the Brethren\u2019s Missouri and Arkansas District, to inspire others to attend their own district conferences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":24237,"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":[2094,1511,2488,3075],"wf_post_folders":[],"class_list":["post-24236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-church-of-the-brethren-newsline","tag-district-conferences","tag-districts","tag-missouri-and-arkansas-district","tag-top-10-list"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24236","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=24236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24238,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24236\/revisions\/24238"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24236"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=24236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}