By Lou Shirey<\/p>\n
On April 16, 2015 denominational leaders and prayer leaders gathered in Atlanta, Georgia for an afternoon of focused prayer.\u00a0 Presiding Bishop Doug Beacham and Dr. Lou Shirey represented the International Pentecostal Holiness Church.\u00a0 This event was an outcome of Encounter 2015, which was a gathering of leaders and pastors of Pentecostal churches in Fayetteville, NC in January 2015.\u00a0 The Atlanta experience was a more diverse group, with leaders from Pentecostal and Evangelical churches present. \u00a0There is a growing sense of unity among all denominations.\u00a0 One specific item of prayer was the call for a national day of solemn assembly.\u00a0 The leadership of the Southern Baptist Convention is leading this effort, which is planned for Pentecost Sunday, 2016.\u00a0 The IPHC will participate in this national effort, along with many other denominations. \u00a0We will have more information in the future about the solemn assembly.\u00a0 The core value theme for the IPHC in 2016 is \u201cWe Prayerfully Value Holiness\u201d.\u00a0 Our theme and the plan for the national prayer effort meshes wonderfully together.\u00a0 It is significant that denominational leaders and many para-church groups are uniting in prayer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"excerpt","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","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":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-401","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-general","7":"entry"},"title_es":"","content_es":"","author_name":"","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb62Bx-6t","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}