{"id":24457,"date":"2024-10-03T22:27:28","date_gmt":"2024-10-03T22:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/?p=24457"},"modified":"2024-10-03T22:28:11","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T22:28:11","slug":"swpoc-october-trainings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2024\/swpoc-october-trainings\/","title":{"rendered":"Standing with People of Color Committee offers October trainings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>This month, the Standing with People of Color Committee of the Church of the Brethren Annual Conference is offering two opportunities for facilitator training for those interested in leading a \u201c7 Prompts\u201d conversation in their communities and congregations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The committee is asking the entire Church of the Brethren to engage in crucial Christian conversations in various settings in the next year, using seven discussion prompts around the theme of standing with people of color and working for justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion. The committee team developed the prompts, along with the \u201cBELOVED\u201d model of conversation, to help the church engage in urgent and heartfelt conversation in a way that builds up \u201cBeloved Community.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"191\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/03\/StandingWithPeopleOfColor-CrucialConversations-600px-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/03\/StandingWithPeopleOfColor-CrucialConversations-600px-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/03\/StandingWithPeopleOfColor-CrucialConversations-600px-1-300x96.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/03\/StandingWithPeopleOfColor-CrucialConversations-600px-1-560x178.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Trainings are offered as online events on Oct. 26, at 1 p.m. (Eastern time), register at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onearthpeace.org\/2024_10_26_swpoc_7_prompts_facilitator_training\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"www.onearthpeace.org\/2024_10_26_swpoc_7_prompts_facilitator_training\">www.onearthpeace.org\/2024_10_26_swpoc_7_prompts_facilitator_training<\/a>; and Oct. 28, at 7 p.m. (Eastern time), register at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onearthpeace.org\/2024_10_28_swpoc_7_prompts_facilitator_training\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"www.onearthpeace.org\/2024_10_28_swpoc_7_prompts_facilitator_training\">www.onearthpeace.org\/2024_10_28_swpoc_7_prompts_facilitator_training<\/a>. Registration for each event closes 24 hours before the workshop starts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information contact <a href=\"mailto:StandingWithPeopleOfColor@brethren.org\">StandingWithPeopleOfColor@brethren.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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\/conference-business-for-2026\/\">Conference business includes resolutions on weapons transfer, care for immigrants and refugees, polity adjustments for licensed and commissioned ministers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/essential-services-of-ordinances\/\">Essential services of ordinances now available online as For All Who Minister prepares for reprinting<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/bdm-rebuilding-program-new-focus\/\">Brethren Disaster Ministries Rebuilding Program serves Hurricane Helene and Western Maryland storm survivors<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/shine-free-worship-resource\/\">Shine Everywhere free six-week worship series helps churches nurture faith at home<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/invitations-to-look-up\/\">Feature for Earth Month and Poetry Month: Invitations to look up, to seek abundant life<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This month, the Standing with People of Color Committee of the Church of the Brethren Annual Conference is offering two opportunities for facilitator training for those interested in leading a \u201c7 Prompts\u201d conversation in their communities and congregations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":23416,"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":[1258,1786,103,3131,2524,1304],"wf_post_folders":[],"class_list":["post-24457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-church-of-the-brethren-newsline","tag-annual-conference","tag-healing-racism","tag-on-earth-peace","tag-online","tag-standing-with-people-of-color-committee","tag-training"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24457","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=24457"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24459,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24457\/revisions\/24459"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24457"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=24457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}