{"id":324,"date":"2026-02-02T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/?p=324"},"modified":"2025-12-23T20:44:58","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T20:44:58","slug":"steward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/steward\/","title":{"rendered":"Steward"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"649\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/12\/26-02-02-DSC_2217-PantherCreekCoB-byCherylBC-1200px-649x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/12\/26-02-02-DSC_2217-PantherCreekCoB-byCherylBC-1200px-649x1024.jpg 649w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/12\/26-02-02-DSC_2217-PantherCreekCoB-byCherylBC-1200px-190x300.jpg 190w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/12\/26-02-02-DSC_2217-PantherCreekCoB-byCherylBC-1200px-768x1212.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/12\/26-02-02-DSC_2217-PantherCreekCoB-byCherylBC-1200px-973x1536.jpg 973w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/12\/26-02-02-DSC_2217-PantherCreekCoB-byCherylBC-1200px-560x884.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/12\/26-02-02-DSC_2217-PantherCreekCoB-byCherylBC-1200px.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 649px) 100vw, 649px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Stained glass windows at Panther Creek Church of the Brethren in Adel, Iowa, feature symbols of service: the basin and towel of footwashing, and the Brethren Service Cup. Photo by Cheryl Brumbaugh-Cayford<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cLike good stewards of the manifold grace of God, <br><strong>serve one another<\/strong> <br>with whatever gift each of you has received.\u201d <\/em><br>\u2013 1 Peter 4:10 (NRSVue)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Activity<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Yesterday was Service Sunday in the Church of the Brethren, celebrating how people serve in the name of Jesus Christ, particularly through the Service Ministries of the denomination: Brethren Disaster Ministries, Children\u2019s Disaster Services, Brethren Volunteer Service, FaithX. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Read about the mandate for service as a value of the church at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2017\/remember-when-bsc-charter\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"www.brethren.org\/news\/2017\/remember-when-bsc-charter\">www.brethren.org\/news\/2017\/remember-when-bsc-charter<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cLike good stewards of the manifold grace of God, serve one another with whatever gift each of you has received.\u201d \u2013 1 Peter 4:10 (NRSVue) Activity Yesterday was Service Sunday in the Church of the Brethren, celebrating how people serve in the name of Jesus Christ, particularly through the Service Ministries of the denomination: Brethren<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":325,"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-324","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\/324","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=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":326,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions\/326"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/pause\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}