{"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 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\/annual-conference-moderator-theme\/\">Annual Conference moderator shares theme statement for 2027<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/conferencia-anual-declaracion-tematica\/\">El moderador de la Conferencia Anual comparte la declaraci\u00f3n tem\u00e1tica para 2027.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/konferans-deklarasyon-tem-2027\/\">Moderat\u00e8 konferans any\u00e8l la pataje deklarasyon t\u00e8m pou 2027 la<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/what-faithful-witness-asks\/\">What faithful witness asks of churches today: CCT\u2019s 20th anniversary forum<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/sa-temwen-fidel-yo-mande\/\">Sa temwen fid\u00e8l yo mande legliz yo jodi a: fow\u00f2m 20y\u00e8m aniv\u00e8s\u00e8 CCT a<\/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}]}}