{"id":9,"date":"2012-07-02T14:39:51","date_gmt":"2012-07-02T12:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genevacursillo.org\/wordpress\/?page_id=9"},"modified":"2024-10-23T17:10:27","modified_gmt":"2024-10-23T15:10:27","slug":"who-are-we-the-geneva-cursillo-community","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/genevacursillo.org\/wordpress\/who-are-we-the-geneva-cursillo-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Who are we, the Geneva Cursillo Community?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over a thousand people have experienced a Geneva Cursillo weekend since the first one was held in 1983.<\/p>\n<p>We are not a separate church or religious group. Our Cursillo community only wishes to help other believers to better appreciate <strong>Christianity as both a gift and a way!<\/strong> This gift helps us rediscover together <strong>simplicity<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>joy<\/strong>, <strong>respect<\/strong>, and the strength of <strong>prayer<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Cursillo is recognized and supported across the world by the mainstream churches. An estimated 45 million people have \u201cdone Cursillo\u201d i.e., participated in a weekend somewhere in the world. Here in Geneva, we have the great privilege of coming together <strong>ecumenically<\/strong> with both clergy and lay members from the <strong>Roman Catholic, Anglican, Episcopal, Scottish Presbyterian, Lutheran, Baptist\u00a0<\/strong>churches, as well as\u00a0evangelical and congregational churches such as <strong>Crossroads<\/strong> Church and <strong>Westlake<\/strong> Church.<\/p>\n<p>Please click here to view the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/genevacursillo.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Statement_of_strategic_direction-December-2020.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">Geneva Ecumenical Cursillo Community Statement of Strategic Direction.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/genevacursillo.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Singing-at-Clausura.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"902\" height=\"322\" src=\"https:\/\/genevacursillo.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Singing-at-Clausura.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-378\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genevacursillo.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Singing-at-Clausura.png 902w, https:\/\/genevacursillo.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Singing-at-Clausura-300x107.png 300w, https:\/\/genevacursillo.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Singing-at-Clausura-768x274.png 768w, https:\/\/genevacursillo.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Singing-at-Clausura-500x178.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 902px) 100vw, 902px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over a thousand people have experienced a Geneva Cursillo weekend since the first one was held in 1983. We are not a separate church or religious group. Our Cursillo community only wishes to help other believers to better appreciate Christianity &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/genevacursillo.org\/wordpress\/who-are-we-the-geneva-cursillo-community\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genevacursillo.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genevacursillo.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genevacursillo.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genevacursillo.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genevacursillo.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/genevacursillo.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":506,"href":"https:\/\/genevacursillo.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions\/506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genevacursillo.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}