{"id":4750,"date":"2014-11-25T10:33:40","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T14:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/?p=4750"},"modified":"2014-11-25T10:33:40","modified_gmt":"2014-11-25T14:33:40","slug":"bishop-calls-for-prayer-for-furguson-mo-112514","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/?p=4750","title":{"rendered":"Bishop Calls for Prayer for Furguson, MO (11\/25\/14)"},"content":{"rendered":"<address><span style=\"color: #000080;\">In anticipation of last night&#8217;s Grand Jury decision of whether to indict the police officer in the shooting of Michael Brown (an incident which occurred on August 9), Bishop John Schol released the following open letter.\u00a0 The decision was announced last night, and it was to not indict.\u00a0 Bishop Schol is the presiding bishop of the Greater New Jersey Annual Conference&#8230;<\/span><\/address>\n<address>\u00a0<\/address>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table id=\"wraptable\" border=\"0\" width=\"600\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<div id=\"logodiv\"><a href=\"http:\/\/gnjumc-email.brtapp.com\/viewinsite\/9ef754e4a7c7361a707307b5d06ca4e3?email=lbakely@comcast.net\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/gnjumc.brtapp.com\/files\/gnj_digest\/bishop_header.jpg\" alt=\"Image\" width=\"600\" height=\"150\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<table id=\"contenttable\" border=\"0\" width=\"600\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"20\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td id=\"bodytd\" valign=\"top\" width=\"600\">\n<div id=\"bodyp\" class=\"BRT-CE\">\n<p>Brothers and Sisters in Christ,<\/p>\n<p>I call on\u00a0United Methodists in\u00a0Greater New Jersey\u00a0and people everywhere\u00a0to pray for our neighbors in Ferguson, Mo\u00a0and all communities as we wait for the grand jury announcement.<\/p>\n<p>Let us recommit to addressing and healing the wounds of racism and the wounds that divide us.<\/p>\n<p>John Schol, Bishop<br \/>\nUnited Methodist Church<br \/>\nGreater New Jersey<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><b data-unsub=\"unsub\">\u00a0<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td id=\"footertd\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In anticipation of last night&#8217;s Grand Jury decision of whether to indict the police officer in the shooting of Michael Brown (an incident which occurred on August 9), Bishop John Schol released the following open letter.\u00a0 The decision was announced last night, and it was to not indict.\u00a0 Bishop Schol is the presiding bishop of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eventreminder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4751,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4750\/revisions\/4751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}