{"id":10928,"date":"2022-06-06T15:21:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T15:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/?p=10928"},"modified":"2022-06-07T13:19:59","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T13:19:59","slug":"welcome-holy-spirit-gc-session-morning-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/welcome-holy-spirit-gc-session-morning-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome Holy Spirit &#8211; GC Session Morning Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">06 June 2022, St Louis, USA [Vanesa Pizzuto]<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Delegates and guests from around the world arrived at America\u2019s Center in St Louis, USA, this morning for the opening programme of the 61st session of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventist. After a two-year delay, this hybrid session feels like a long-awaited family reunion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Evangelist Mark Finley shared the first message, challenging the present to depend on the power of the Holy Spirt, and not their own. Finley invited Christians to finally be \u201ctired of prosperity and success\u201d and make God and his Kingdom the driving force in their lives through the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. The congregation then prayed together and in groups for the Spirit to guide the first business session, starting at 10:00 am USA, and every session at St Louis.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/DSC_9010-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10930 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/DSC_9010-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/DSC_9010-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/DSC_9010-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/DSC_9010-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/DSC_9010-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/DSC_9010-2048x1365.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/DSC_9010-350x233.jpeg 350w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/DSC_9010-700x467.jpeg 700w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/DSC_9010-900x600.jpeg 900w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/DSC_9010-1100x733.jpeg 1100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/DSC_9007-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10935\" src=\"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/DSC_9007-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/DSC_9007-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/DSC_9007-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/DSC_9007-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/DSC_9007-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/DSC_9007-2048x1365.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/DSC_9007-350x233.jpeg 350w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/DSC_9007-700x467.jpeg 700w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/DSC_9007-900x600.jpeg 900w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/DSC_9007-1100x733.jpeg 1100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the context of elder Wilson\u2019s wish for mission to permeate every aspect of this session, and of the world church, Colonel Eric and Leah Guevarra were baptised today. Mr and Ms Guevara heard the Gospel through the ministry of Adventist World Radio (AWR) in the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/DSC_9100-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10937\" src=\"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/DSC_9100-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/DSC_9100-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/DSC_9100-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/DSC_9100-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/DSC_9100-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/DSC_9100-2048x1365.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/DSC_9100-350x233.jpeg 350w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/DSC_9100-700x467.jpeg 700w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/DSC_9100-900x600.jpeg 900w, https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/DSC_9100-1100x733.jpeg 1100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed wp-block-embed-youtube is-type-video is-provider-youtube epyt-figure\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_62479\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"  data-origwidth=\"800\" data-origheight=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vdOZftBQSZE?enablejsapi=1&origin=https:\/\/ted.adventist.org&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&rel=0&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"Registration and Review of What is in a Delegate\u2019s Bag 61st GC Session, St. Louis - Vlog, Day 1\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/figure>\n<hr \/>\n<p>[Photos: Jimmy Botha]<br \/>\nThis article was modified from its original version.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Finley invites attendees to pray for the Holy Spirit <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":10943,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1570,1576,7],"tags":[1096,1122,1121,428],"class_list":["post-10928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-discipleship-spiritual-growth","category-leadership-development","category-news","tag-general-conference","tag-mark-finely","tag-morning","tag-session"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10928"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10960,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10928\/revisions\/10960"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ted.adventist.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}