{"id":5839,"date":"2017-01-14T18:00:04","date_gmt":"2017-01-14T18:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.brethren.org\/news\/?p=5839"},"modified":"2018-10-03T18:02:24","modified_gmt":"2018-10-03T18:02:24","slug":"ventures-course-at-mcpherson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2017\/ventures-course-at-mcpherson\/","title":{"rendered":"Ventures course at McPherson College will address Brethren history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Church of the Brethren Newsline<br \/>\nJanuary\u00a014,\u00a02017<\/b><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4383\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/01\/ventures-in-christian-discipleship.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"226\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/01\/ventures-in-christian-discipleship.jpg 226w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/01\/ventures-in-christian-discipleship-136x300.jpg 136w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 226px) 100vw, 226px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Frank Ramirez, Church of the Brethren storyteller, historian, and pastor, will be the presenter for the next Ventures course from 9 a.m. to 12 noon (central time) on Saturday, Jan. 21. His topic will be \u201cThe Real Deal in Brethren History: What Really Happened Out There, and What Does It Mean For Today?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ventures in Christian Discipleship is an online program of McPherson (Kan.) College, designed to equip church members with skills and understandings for faithful and dynamic Christian living, action, and leadership. All courses are free, but donations are welcome to help continue the effort.<\/p>\n<p>Ramirez will answer questions such as \u201cWho founded the Church of the Brethren?\u201d and \u201cWhich Brethren historian was wrong about the past, yet correct about the future?\u201d He will illuminate the webinar with little-known stories, and provide fresh perspective on how our church past can help inform us as we face our future.<\/p>\n<p>Registration information is available at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcpherson.edu\/ventures\">www.mcpherson.edu\/ventures<\/a>\u00a0.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212; This report was provided to Newsline by Lois Grove.<\/em><\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frank Ramirez, Church of the Brethren storyteller, historian, and pastor, will be the presenter for the next Ventures course from 9 a.m. to 12 noon (central time) on Saturday, Jan. 21. His topic will be \u201cThe Real Deal in Brethren History: What Really Happened Out There, and What Does It Mean For Today?\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":4383,"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":[1264,1304],"wf_post_folders":[],"class_list":["post-5839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-colleges","tag-training"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5839","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=5839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5840,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5839\/revisions\/5840"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5839"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=5839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}