{"id":7700,"date":"2014-01-17T00:00:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-17T00:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.brethren.org\/news\/?p=7700"},"modified":"2018-11-03T20:22:42","modified_gmt":"2018-11-03T20:22:42","slug":"service-sunday-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2014\/service-sunday-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Service Sunday 2014 Will Focus on Serving God by Serving All"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"image-494145380\" class=\"templateComponent mceCmsPageletVA mceNonEditable\" style=\"vertical-align: top;float: right\">\n<div class=\"thumbnail\">\n<div class=\"image\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The theme for the Church of the Brethren\u2019s observance of Service Sunday 2014 is \u201cServing God by Serving All\u201d inspired by John 12: 26, \u201cIf any of you wants to serve me, then follow me. Then you\u2019ll be where I am, ready to serve at a moment\u2019s notice. The Father will honor and reward anyone who serves me\u201d (The Message version).<\/p>\n<p>Recognized annually on the first Sunday in February, Service Sunday is sponsored by a number of Church of the Brethren ministries including the workcamp ministry, Brethren Volunteer Service (BVS), Brethren Disaster Ministries, and the Brethren Service Center.<\/p>\n<p>Service Sunday celebrates those who serve in Church of the Brethren communities and throughout the world, and encourages church members to discover opportunities to serve through Brethren ministries and to explore possibilities to serve in local communities. The goal of the event is to \u201cBe transformed by serving one another in the name of Christ.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Worship resources for Service Sunday 2014 are online at <a href=\"..\/..\/..\/preview!www.brethren.org\/servicesunday\">www.brethren.org\/servicesunday<\/a> .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The theme for the Church of the Brethren\u2019s observance of Service Sunday 2014 is \u201cServing God by Serving All\u201d inspired by John 12: 26, \u201cIf any of you wants to serve me, then follow me. Then you\u2019ll be where I am, ready to serve at a moment\u2019s notice. The Father will honor and reward anyone who serves me\u201d (The Message version).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"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":[1],"tags":[456,68,1273],"wf_post_folders":[],"class_list":["post-7700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-brethren-disaster-ministries","tag-brethren-volunteer-service","tag-spiritual-life"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7700","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7701,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7700\/revisions\/7701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7700"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=7700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}