{"id":25447,"date":"2025-06-25T01:15:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T01:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/?p=25447"},"modified":"2025-06-27T15:48:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T15:48:12","slug":"global-mission-requests-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2025\/global-mission-requests-prayer\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Mission requests prayer for international guests coming to Annual Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She also requested prayer for Global Mission staff Athanasus Ungang as he travels to the US from South Sudan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The international guests who are expected include<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From the <strong>Dominican Republic<\/strong>: Anastacia Beltre, a pastor in Iglesia de los Hermanos Comunidad de Fe<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From <strong>Haiti<\/strong>: Dr. Emerson Pierre, a physician, and his wife, Fenite, and their daughter<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From <strong>Honduras<\/strong>: Arely Cantor and Mario Cantor Romero, pastors of Iglesia Cristiana Viviendo en Amor y Fe<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From <strong>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<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From <strong>Nigeria<\/strong>: Daniel Mbaya, president of Ekklesiyar Yan\u2019uwa a Nigeria (EYN)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From <strong>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<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">#MissionAndMinistryBoard #StrategicPlan #RacialJustice #LoveOurNeighbors #Discipleship #NewTestamentGiving<\/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>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}]}}