{"id":33,"date":"2012-04-12T15:00:14","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T22:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pnwumc.org\/gc2012\/?p=33"},"modified":"2012-04-13T01:21:19","modified_gmt":"2012-04-13T08:21:19","slug":"gc2012-to-include-call-to-repentance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/gc2012-to-include-call-to-repentance\/","title":{"rendered":"GC2012 to include call to repentance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>A UMNS Report by Kathy L. Gilbert and Linda Bloom. \u00a0UMNS photo by Mike DuBose.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Historically, the treatment of indigenous people by Christian churches \u2014including Methodists \u2014 has been good, bad and ugly.<\/p>\n<p>As The United Methodist Church gathers for its\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.umc.org\/site\/c.lwL4KnN1LtH\/b.7989685\/k.1FD3\/General_Conference_2012.htm\" target=\"_blank\">worldwide legislative session<\/a>\u00a0April 24-May 4 in Tampa, Fla., the denomination will recognize that history and take steps toward healing with Native Americans and other indigenous people around the world.<\/p>\n<p>The Rev. Anita Phillips, director of the church\u2019s Native American Comprehensive Plan, is praying her fellow United Methodists will make a \u201cspiritual investment\u201d during the service that will bear fruit for years to come.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will pray for my brothers and sisters in the church to be able to draw on a sense of courage of Christ to be able to make themselves vulnerable to hear our story,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>An \u201cAct of Repentance for Indigenous People\u201d worship service is planned April 27 during the 2012 General Conference, as part of a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gccuic-umc.org\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=349&amp;Itemid=283\" target=\"_blank\">charge to the United Methodist Commission on Christian Unity and Interreligious Concerns<\/a>\u00a0by church legislators four years ago.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.umc.org\/site\/apps\/nlnet\/content3.aspx?c=lwL4KnN1LtH&amp;b=6302313&amp;ct=11712031&amp;notoc=1\">Click here to read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A UMNS Report by Kathy L. Gilbert and Linda Bloom. \u00a0UMNS photo by Mike DuBose. Historically, the treatment of indigenous people by Christian churches \u2014including Methodists \u2014 has been good, bad and ugly. As The United Methodist Church gathers for its\u00a0worldwide legislative session\u00a0April 24-May 4 in Tampa, Fla., the denomination will recognize that history and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-33","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-umns"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/umns12_133_1_lightbox.jpg?fit=720%2C480&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2l75j-x","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions\/36"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pnwumc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}