{"id":36199,"date":"2020-03-15T11:50:01","date_gmt":"2020-03-15T16:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/?p=36199"},"modified":"2020-03-12T15:52:47","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T20:52:47","slug":"world-day-of-prayer-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/2020\/03\/15\/world-day-of-prayer-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"World Day Of Prayer 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/WorldDayOfPrayer2020.gif\" alt=\"\" title=\"WorldDayOfPrayer2020\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-36088\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/WorldDayOfPrayer2020.gif 300w, https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/WorldDayOfPrayer2020-228x171.gif 228w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Submitted by: Beverley Leach | <\/p>\n<p>The World Day of Prayer is an international ecumenical Christian lay women&#8217;s initiative which is celebrated in 170 countries annually on the first Friday in March.  Seven congregations in the Swan Valley gathered in  St. James church in Friday, March 6 to join in prayer for peace and justice.  This year the program, which was based on the scripture John  5:2 to 9, was prepared by the Zimbabwe Committee and hosted by the Lutheran Anglican church.  The service included information about the country, its needs and efforts to improve conditions there.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/BabsLeslie.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"BabsLeslie\" width=\"475\" height=\"633\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-36201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/BabsLeslie.jpg 475w, https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/BabsLeslie-300x400.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/BabsLeslie-228x303.jpg 228w, https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/BabsLeslie-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\" \/><br \/>\nAs participants entered the church they were greeted by Camie Crook and offered a drink of water as is the custom in Zimbabwe. Babs Leslie accepts this welcoming gesture. Following the service, forty-three members of the congregation met for a time of fellowship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submitted by: Beverley Leach | The World Day of Prayer is an international ecumenical Christian lay women&#8217;s initiative which is celebrated in 170 countries annually on the first Friday in March. Seven congregations in the Swan Valley gathered in St. James church in Friday, March 6 to join in prayer for peace and justice. This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-36199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local","tag-coverage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}