{"id":18024,"date":"2021-10-31T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-31T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/urc\/the-12-days-of-copmas"},"modified":"2021-10-31T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-31T18:00:00","slug":"the-12-days-of-copmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/the-12-days-of-copmas\/","title":{"rendered":"The 12 Days of COPmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The 12 Days of COPmas<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dear&nbsp;&lt;&lt;First Name&gt;&gt;<\/p>\n<p>I hope you have found the reflections on selections from the Book of Proverbs both interesting and useful; it&#8217;s a book often overlooked in our churches yet much of the wisdom contained in it is still relevant to our daily lives of discipleship today.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow we turn to a new series to accompany the 26th \u2018Conference of Parties\u2019 (COP26) held here in Glasgow.&nbsp; Tomorrow this United Nations event, delayed from 2020, will start. It is an opportunity for representatives from around the world to report on their updated policies and successes as they attempt to halt the climate crisis and environmental disaster which threaten not only the most vulnerable human beings, plants and animals but our very existence as a species.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"docs-internal-guid-ee1d2179-7fff-6d14-45fc-e5419beec43b\">As COP26 unfolds over the next twelve days, some of the URC\u2019s Green Apostles and other voices for climate action have written Daily Devotions on environmental issues that we hope will inform, inspire and stir you to pray and take action. Our theme is \u2018The Twelve Days of COPmas\u2019, where we each consider a gift we would offer to our \u2018true love\u2019, the Earth, and which Jesus offers to us now.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>with every good wish<\/p>\n<p>Andy<\/p>\n<p>The Rev&#8217;d Andy Braunston<br \/>Co-ordinator, Daily Devotions from the URC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 12 Days of COPmas Dear&nbsp;&lt;&lt;First Name&gt;&gt; I hope you have found the reflections on selections from the Book of Proverbs both interesting and useful; it&#8217;s a book often overlooked in our churches yet much of the wisdom contained in it is still relevant to our daily lives of discipleship today. Tomorrow we turn to &hellip; <\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/the-12-days-of-copmas\/\" class=\"button more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The 12 Days of COPmas&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trinitywimbledon.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}