{"id":983,"date":"2002-10-08T09:07:17","date_gmt":"2002-10-08T17:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2002\/10\/08\/the-fellowship-serving-jesus-in-the-capitol\/"},"modified":"2002-10-08T09:07:17","modified_gmt":"2002-10-08T17:07:17","slug":"the-fellowship-serving-jesus-in-the-capitol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2002\/10\/08\/the-fellowship-serving-jesus-in-the-capitol","title":{"rendered":"The Fellowship: Serving Jesus In The Capitol"},"content":{"rendered":"

The LA Times<\/a> has the most interesting article I\u2019ve seen in quite a while. It\u2019s about a secretive group called The Fellowship, a Christian organization that has had massive influence in the public sphere.<\/p>\n

For the last two decades, a Virginia mansion has been a private hideaway for world leaders, members of Congress, and even pop star Michael Jackson\u2026<\/i><\/p>\n

The Fellowship was a behind-the-scenes player at the Camp David Middle East accords in 1978, working with President Jimmy Carter to issue a worldwide call to prayer with Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. During the Cold War, it helped finance an anti-communism propaganda film endorsed by the CIA and used by the Pentagon overseas.<\/p>\n

Last year, the Fellowship helped arrange a secret meeting at Cedars between two warring leaders, Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila and Rwandan President Paul Kagame\u2013one of the first of a series of discreet meetings between the two African leaders that eventually led to the signing of a peace accord in July.<\/p>\n

Incidentally, they\u2019re also the ones who sponsor the National Prayer Breakfast. There\u2019s much more, and I encourage you to read all about it<\/a>. (Thanks to Christianity Today<\/a> for the link!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The LA Times has the most interesting article I\u2019ve seen in quite a while. It\u2019s about a secretive group called The Fellowship, a Christian organization that has had massive influence in the public sphere. For the last two decades, a Virginia mansion has been a private hideaway for world leaders, members of Congress, and even \u2026 Continue reading \u201cThe Fellowship: Serving Jesus In The Capitol\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-of-random-interest"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-fR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}