{"id":3051,"date":"2016-05-11T15:53:10","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T20:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briarwood.org\/missions\/?page_id=3051"},"modified":"2017-02-24T15:54:48","modified_gmt":"2017-02-24T21:54:48","slug":"ethnic-congregations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/briarwood.org\/missions\/local-internationals\/ethnic-congregations\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethnic Congregations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/briarwood.org\/missions\/files\/2013\/05\/Japanese-Congregation.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1073\" src=\"http:\/\/briarwood.org\/missions\/files\/2013\/05\/Japanese-Congregation.jpg\" alt=\"Japanese Congregation\" width=\"512\" height=\"278\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\">Ethnic Congregations<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>At Briarwood, we believe in the value of reaching and discipling internationals in their \u201cheart language.\u201d Twenty years ago, Japanese and Korean languages congregations were formed as a function of the Missions ministry. The Hispanic congregation began meeting in the year 2000.\u00a0 Each of these ministries is served by a language specific pastor and lay leaders. Briarwood follows a \u201cmulti-congregational\u201d model in which the ethnic ministries are fully a part of and under the leadership of our one church.<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/briarwood.org\/missions\/local-internationals\/hispanic-congregation\/\">Click here to visit our Hispanic Congregation.<\/a><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/briarwood.org\/missions\/local-internationals\/japanese-congregation\/\">Click here to visit our Japanese Congregation.<\/a><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/briarwood.org\/missions\/local-internationals\/korean-congregation\/\">Click here to visit our Korean Congregation.<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethnic Congregations At Briarwood, we believe in the value of reaching and discipling internationals in their \u201cheart language.\u201d Twenty years ago, Japanese and Korean languages congregations were formed as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":603,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3051","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.8 - 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