{"id":13379,"date":"2016-06-30T14:59:11","date_gmt":"2016-06-30T21:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/?p=13379"},"modified":"2016-06-30T14:59:11","modified_gmt":"2016-06-30T21:59:11","slug":"we-are-ready-for-lyda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/we-are-ready-for-lyda\/","title":{"rendered":"We are Ready for Lyda!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>By the Rev. Lyda Pierce,\u00a0Candidate for Bishop<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>I deeply appreciate the love and affirmation that people have shared since my nomination this weekend as a candidate for bishop. What started as a creatively pl<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">ayful moment last year has morphed into a somewhat daunting adventure. Yet after much prayer and consultation with colleagues, I now embrace this opportunity to offer myself, with fear and trembling, as a candidate for bishop.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p>Elections will take place at the <a href=\"http:\/\/westernjurisdictionumc.org\/wj-conferences\/\">Western Jurisdictional Conference<\/a>, to be held July 13-16 in Scottsdale, Arizona. The jurisdiction has several wonderful candidates for bishop, and I\u2019m confident that whoever we choose will help move us as a church to more fully incarnate the beloved community that God intends for us.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s an honor to represent my feisty and faithful Pacific Northwest Conference in the election. I trust that this experience can be one of grace-filled discernment for our denomination in the west of the United States, and I pray I can contribute to a time of holy conferencing in which the Spirit\u2019s work of leadership, accompaniment and vision will be made manifest among us. With God\u2019s help, and your prayers, I am ready for this.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>The Rev. Lyda Pierce serves the Pacific Northwest Conference as Coordinator of Hispanic\/Latino Ministries. She was endorsed\u00a0as a candidate for bishop by the members of the 2016 Pacific Northwest Annual Conference. Follow along on Facebook at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ReadyForLyda\/\">Ready for Lyda!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By the Rev. Lyda Pierce,\u00a0Candidate for Bishop I deeply appreciate the love and affirmation that people have shared since my nomination this weekend as a candidate for bishop. What started as a creatively playful moment last year has morphed into a somewhat daunting adventure. Yet after much prayer and consultation with colleagues, I now embrace [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":13383,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[245,4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13379","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-annual-conference","8":"category-wj-news"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Lyda-Pierce-1.jpg?fit=1200%2C626&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2l75j-3tN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13379"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13382,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13379\/revisions\/13382"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}