{"id":5446,"date":"2018-09-21T20:01:58","date_gmt":"2018-09-21T20:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.brethren.org\/news\/?p=5446"},"modified":"2018-10-01T20:04:32","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T20:04:32","slug":"online-mutual-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2018\/online-mutual-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Online mutual support proposed for young women in ministry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Church of the Brethren Newsline<br \/>\nSeptember\u00a021,\u00a02018<\/b><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5447\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5447\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5447\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/10\/clergywoman-with-computer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/10\/clergywoman-with-computer.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/10\/clergywoman-with-computer-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5447\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Cheryl Brumbaugh-Cayford<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On behalf of the Church of the Brethren Office of Ministry, Amy Ritchie\u2014a spiritual director and former Bethany Theological Seminary staff\u2014has extended an invitation to women in ministry, ages 25-40, for a monthly virtual gathering.<\/p>\n<p>This gathering will happen via Zoom videoconferencing on the second Tuesday of each month for one hour, beginning at noon (Eastern Time). Ritchie will facilitate the conversation, and the agenda will be brought by the participants who participate online. These calls will offer \u201ca time of wisdom-sharing, idea generation, and support among young women.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The first call will be Oct. 9. To receive the Zoom link, contact Ritchie at <a href=\"mailto:amy@persimmonstudio.org\">amy@persimmonstudio.org<\/a>. All young women in ministry, whether credentialed or non-credentialed, are welcome. \u201cThe space will be held with an intention of support, loving kindness, and the presence of God,\u201d Ritchie says. The Office of Ministry envisions additional future conference calls and welcomes ideas and suggestions for ministry focus areas. For more details or further conversation, contact\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mail.google.com\/mail\/?view=cm&amp;fs=1&amp;tf=1&amp;to=officeofministry@brethren.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">officeofministry@brethren.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Go to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brethren.org\/Newsline\">www.brethren.org\/Newsline<\/a>\u00a0to subscribe to the Church of the Brethren Newsline free e-mail news service and receive church news every week.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On behalf of the Church of the Brethren Office of Ministry, Amy Ritchie\u2014a spiritual director and former Bethany Theological Seminary staff\u2014has extended an invitation to women in ministry, ages 25-40, for a monthly virtual gathering. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":5447,"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":[1],"tags":[1267,1304],"wf_post_folders":[],"class_list":["post-5446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ministry-office","tag-training"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5446","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5448,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5446\/revisions\/5448"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5446"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=5446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}