{"id":24260,"date":"2024-08-30T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-30T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/?p=24260"},"modified":"2024-08-30T20:32:34","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T20:32:34","slug":"congregations-celebrate-milestones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2024\/congregations-celebrate-milestones\/","title":{"rendered":"Congregations celebrate milestone anniversaries of ministry in their communities"},"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:33.33%\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Among Church of the Brethren congregations marking milestone anniversaries are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Peace Community Church of the Brethren<\/strong> in Windsor, Colo., celebrated its 50th anniversary on Aug. 18.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Open Circle Church of the Brethren<\/strong> in Burnsville, Minn., celebrated its 30th anniversary earlier this year, on Easter Sunday, but more recently announced a celebration with the Northern Plains District planned for Sept. 7.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An announcement from pastor Jay Steele appeared in a recent district newsletter, noting that it was on Easter Sunday 1994 that Open Circle held its first public worship service. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThirty years later this past Easter we marked this wonderful milestone in our congregation\u2019s life. Open Circle owes its birth and beginning to the dreams and then early financial support of the Northern Plains District. We are grateful for that. But we knew that Easter Sunday is not a great day to invite folks in the district to a celebration as everyone is busy with their own Easter celebrations.\u201d  The event will start with lunch around 12:30 p.m. The church is providing the food, bring a lawn chair.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"386\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/08\/PeaceCommunity50th-byJoelBrumbaugh-Cayford-600px.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24261\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Members, family, and friends of Peace Community Church of the Brethren pose for a group photo during celebrations of the congregation\u2019s 50th anniversary. Photo by Joel Brumbaugh-Cayford<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\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\/cds-volunteers-support-kerrville\/\">CDS volunteers support \u2018Faith and Fellowship\u2019 memorial event in Kerrville<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/pastors-ordained-in-south-sudan\/\">Pastors ordained for Church of the Brethren ministry in South Sudan<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/speakers-for-nyc-2026\/\">The speakers for National Youth Conference 2026<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/brethren-and-the-declaration\/\">Brethren and the Declaration of Independence: Denise Kettering-Lane presents an equipping session<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/god-of-grace-and-god-of-glory\/\">\u2018God of grace and God of glory\u2019: A call to worship<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among Church of the Brethren congregations marking milestone anniversaries in recent weeks: Peace Community Church of the Brethren in Windsor, Colo., and Open Circle Church of the Brethren in Burnsville, Minn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":24261,"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":[3074,1682,564,3085],"wf_post_folders":[],"class_list":["post-24260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-church-of-the-brethren-newsline","tag-anniversaries","tag-congregations","tag-open-circle-church-of-the-brethren","tag-peace-community-church-of-the-brethren"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24260","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=24260"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24266,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24260\/revisions\/24266"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24260"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=24260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}