{"id":4356,"date":"2016-01-13T10:48:51","date_gmt":"2016-01-13T14:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/?p=4356"},"modified":"2016-01-13T14:52:23","modified_gmt":"2016-01-13T18:52:23","slug":"opening-convocation-for-just-such-a-time-as-this-president-loren-swartzendruber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/2016\/01\/13\/opening-convocation-for-just-such-a-time-as-this-president-loren-swartzendruber\/","title":{"rendered":"Opening Convocation: &#8220;For Just Such a Time as This&#8221; &#8211; President Loren Swartzendruber"},"content":{"rendered":"<audio controls src=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/media\/podcasts\/01.13.16--LorenSConvocation.mp3\">Your browser does not support the audio element.<\/audio>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.emu.edu\/personnel\/people\/show\/les368\">President Loren Swartzendruber<\/a> addresses the campus community for his final Opening Convocation service on the theme: <em>For Just Such a Time as This<\/em>. Chapel includes a time of prayerful sending for the Cross-Cultural Seminar groups departing for the Middle East and Guatemala-Cuba.<\/p>\n<p>Scripture: Esther 4:12-14 (The Message):<\/p>\n<p><em>When Hathach told Mordecai what Esther had said, Mordecai sent her this message: \u201cDon\u2019t think that just because you live in the king\u2019s house you\u2019re the one Jew who will get out of this alive. If you persist in staying silent at a time like this, help and deliverance will arrive for the Jews from someplace else; but you and your family will be wiped out. Who knows? Maybe you were made queen for just such a time as this.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"emu-podcast-embed\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/media\/podcasts\/01.13.16--LorenSConvocation.mp3\">Your browser does not support the audio element.<\/audio><\/div><p>President Loren Swartzendruber addresses the campus community for his final Opening Convocation service on the theme: For Just Such a Time as This. Chapel includes a time of prayerful sending for the Cross-Cultural Seminar groups departing for the Middle East and Guatemala-Cuba. Scripture: Esther 4:12-14 (The Message): When Hathach told Mordecai what Esther had said,....<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,409],"tags":[4444,4063],"class_list":["post-4356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facultystaff-speakers","category-chapel","tag-convocation","tag-loren-swartzendruber","has-post-thumbnail","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4357,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4356\/revisions\/4357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}