{"id":17157,"date":"2020-11-19T17:39:22","date_gmt":"2020-11-19T17:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwc-cmm.org\/en\/resources\/anabaptist-world-fellowship-sunday-2021\/"},"modified":"2025-02-07T16:34:52","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T16:34:52","slug":"anabaptist-world-fellowship-sunday-2021","status":"publish","type":"mwcresource","link":"https:\/\/mwc-cmm.org\/en\/resources\/anabaptist-world-fellowship-sunday-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Anabaptist World Fellowship Sunday 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Theme:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Following Jesus together across barriers<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why this theme was chosen:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the theme chosen for the Indonesia 2021 Assembly. 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