{"id":14535,"date":"2016-05-04T10:37:27","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T14:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chescotimes.com\/?p=14535"},"modified":"2016-05-04T10:06:53","modified_gmt":"2016-05-04T14:06:53","slug":"ymca-celebrates-national-day-of-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/?p=14535","title":{"rendered":"YMCA celebrates national day of prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-304\" src=\"http:\/\/chescotimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/YMCALogo-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"YMCALogo\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/>Tapping its historic roots, the YMCA of Greater Brandywine will join countless organizations across the country today\u00a0in celebrating the National Day of Prayer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Founded to help Americans revive with their spiritual lives, the Y will host a variety of activities to kindle or rekindle the joy and power that can be found in prayer.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cAt the Y, we work to strengthen spirit, body and mind. That is our charge, and we take that seriously,\u201d said Denise L. Day, president and CEO of the YMCA of Greater Brandywine. \u201cPrayer helps to deepen our sense of gratitude for our blessings and to focus our attention on the needs of others.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cIf we can encourage people to take a moment, just a moment in their day, to do this, we would have helped to forge an even stronger community \u2013 and build a better us,\u201d Day said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Established as the Young Men\u2019s Christian Association, the Y embraces people of all faith traditions, as well as nonbelievers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Thursday\u2019s activities are designed to be ecumenical and inclusive. Branch activities will range from pastor-led outdoor group prayer to children designing boxes to collect names and conditions that welcome a thoughtful, heartfelt word.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Most events are open to the public, taking place in the morning, afternoon and evening. Contact your area Y branch for a complete schedule of activities.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tapping its historic roots, the YMCA of Greater Brandywine will join countless organizations across the country today\u00a0in celebrating the National Day of Prayer. Founded to help Americans revive with their spiritual lives, the Y will host a variety of activities to kindle or rekindle the joy and power that can be found in prayer. &nbsp;&nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[7313,2959],"class_list":["post-14535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-national-day-of-prayer","tag-ymca"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14536,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14535\/revisions\/14536"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}