Prayer for the international guests who will be attending Annual Conference this year is requested by Global Mission executive director Sharon Brugger Norton. She requests general prayers for their safety and safe travels, with no problems at the border, \u201cand a reminder to greet them warmly and thank them for coming.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She also requested prayer for Global Mission staff Athanasus Ungang as he travels to the US from South Sudan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The international guests who are expected include<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n From the Dominican Republic<\/strong>: Anastacia Beltre, a pastor in Iglesia de los Hermanos Comunidad de Fe<\/p>\n\n\n\n From Haiti<\/strong>: Dr. Emerson Pierre, a physician, and his wife, Fenite, and their daughter<\/p>\n\n\n\n From Honduras<\/strong>: Arely Cantor and Mario Cantor Romero, pastors of Iglesia Cristiana Viviendo en Amor y Fe<\/p>\n\n\n\n From India<\/strong>: Ashok Solanky, a pastor in the First District Church of the Brethren, India, and his wife, Upama Solanky<\/p>\n\n\n\n From Nigeria<\/strong>: Daniel Mbaya, president of Ekklesiyar Yan\u2019uwa a Nigeria (EYN)<\/p>\n\n\n\n From Rwanda<\/strong>: Etienne Nsanzimana, president of the Church of the Brethren in Rwanda; and Brigitte Zawadi, a Bethany Seminary student from the Church of the Brethren in Rwanda<\/p>\n\n\n\n #MissionAndMinistryBoard #StrategicPlan #RacialJustice #LoveOurNeighbors #Discipleship #NewTestamentGiving<\/p>\n\n\n\n ———-<\/p>\n\n\n\n Find more Church of the Brethren news:<\/p>\n\n\n Prayer for the international guests who will be attending Annual Conference this year is requested by Global Mission executive director Sharon Brugger Norton. She requests general prayers for their safety and safe travels, with no problems at the border, \u201cand a reminder to greet them warmly and thank them for coming.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"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":[1258,3102,1468,3030,1748,1898],"wf_post_folders":[],"class_list":["post-25447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-the-brethren-newsline","tag-annual-conference","tag-annual-conference-2025","tag-global-mission","tag-international-guests","tag-prayer-request","tag-prayer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25447","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=25447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25448,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25447\/revisions\/25448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25447"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=25447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}