{"id":263,"date":"2025-10-06T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/?p=263"},"modified":"2025-09-11T18:41:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T18:41:07","slug":"sharing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/sharing\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/09\/25-10-06-PICT5923-byCherylBC-1200px-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-264\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/09\/25-10-06-PICT5923-byCherylBC-1200px-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/09\/25-10-06-PICT5923-byCherylBC-1200px-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/09\/25-10-06-PICT5923-byCherylBC-1200px-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/09\/25-10-06-PICT5923-byCherylBC-1200px-560x747.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/09\/25-10-06-PICT5923-byCherylBC-1200px.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Photo credit: Cheryl Brumbaugh-Cayford<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cThe cup of blessing that we bless, <br>is it not a sharing in the blood of Christ? <br>The bread that we break, <br><strong>is it not a sharing in the body of Christ?\u201d<\/strong> <br>\u2013 1 Corinthians 10:16 (NRSVue)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><br>Activity<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">World Communion Sunday on the first Sunday of October is a chance for Christians around the world to celebrate communion together on the same day, remembering Jesus\u2019 invitation to share in one body of faith. Do an internet search for \u201cWorld Communion Sunday\u201d and sample some of the many resources for this day, offered by a wide variety of traditions\u2014from the United Methodists to the Baptists to the United Church of Christ and more\u2014posted by local congregations, state councils of churches, national denominations, and ecumenical groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a sharing in the blood of Christ? The bread that we break, is it not a sharing in the body of Christ?\u201d \u2013 1 Corinthians 10:16 (NRSVue) Activity World Communion Sunday on the first Sunday of October is a chance for Christians around the world<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":264,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-tiny-retreat"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":265,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions\/265"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}