{"id":24842,"date":"2025-02-06T01:39:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T01:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/?p=24842"},"modified":"2025-02-07T01:43:24","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T01:43:24","slug":"holmesville-150th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2025\/holmesville-150th-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"Holmesville Church celebrates 150 years of ministry"},"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>An invitation from Holmesville Church of the Brethren, submitted to Newsline by Western Plains District<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An invitation to join us in celebrating our 150th birthday with an Open House Weekend, March 29 and 30, at Holmesville Church of the Brethren, 30748 S 66 Rd., Holmesville, NE 68310.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Saturday, March 29, the church will be open 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Please make yourself at home with pie, coffee, and finger food throughout the day. Pictures of past events, people, and activities will be displayed to help prompt memories. If you have a memory you would like to share, you may send it to the church email by March 15, so it can be added to the anniversary book: <a href=\"mailto:holmesvillebrethrenchurch@gmail.com\">holmesvillebrethrenchurch@gmail.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sunday, March 30, the church will be open 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Worship begins at 9:30 with coffee and fellowship following. The noon meal will be catered. Please RSPV for this meal by emailing: <a href=\"mailto:holmesvillebrethrenchurch@gmail.com\">holmesvillebrethrenchurch@gmail.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A tour of church-related sites in Gage County will be available both days upon request. Contact Laureen via the church email.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Please help us plan by letting us know when you may be coming \u2013 but just \u201cshowing up\u201d is fine as well. If you cannot come this weekend, the picture displays will remain up during April.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Please share this information with anyone you think may be interested.<\/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-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"409\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/02\/Holmesville150th-600px.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24843\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/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 is-layout-flow wp-block-latest-posts-is-layout-flow\"><li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/steele-to-conclude-service-aug-2028\/\">David Steele to conclude service as Church of the Brethren General Secretary in August 2028<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/steele-concluira-su-servicio-agosto-2028\/\">David Steele concluir\u00e1 su servicio como Secretario General de la Iglesia de los Hermanos en agosto de 2028<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/steele-pral-fini-sevis-li-out-2028\/\">David Steele pral fini s\u00e8vis li k\u00f2m Sekret\u00e8 Jeneral Legliz Fr\u00e8 yo nan mwa Out 2028<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/brethren-volunteer-service-unit-340\/\">Brethren Volunteer Service Unit 340 completes orientation<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/la-unidad-340-del-bvs\/\">La Unidad 340 del Servicio Voluntario de los Hermanos completa la orientaci\u00f3n.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An invitation to join us in celebrating our 150th birthday with an Open House Weekend, March 29 and 30, at Holmesville Church of the Brethren, 30748 S 66 Rd., Holmesville, NE 68310.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":24843,"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":[3197,3196,939],"wf_post_folders":[],"class_list":["post-24842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-church-of-the-brethren-newsline","tag-150th-anniversary","tag-holmesville-church-of-the-brethren","tag-western-plains-district"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24842","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=24842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24844,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24842\/revisions\/24844"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24842"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=24842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}