{"id":311061,"date":"2019-10-31T06:06:11","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T20:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=311061"},"modified":"2019-10-31T06:06:11","modified_gmt":"2019-10-30T20:06:11","slug":"gca-students-pray-for-other-countries-in-parade-of-nations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/gca-students-pray-for-other-countries-in-parade-of-nations\/","title":{"rendered":"GCA students pray for other  countries in Parade of Nations"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_311062\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-311062\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/GCA-pix-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-311062\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/GCA-pix-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-311062\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grace Christian Academy\u2019s first-grade students present the Bahamas as the country that they are praying for in celebration of GCA\u2019s Parade of Nations last Friday at the GCA chapel. Each grade level chose a country to represent in celebration of GCA\u2019s annual mission convention. (MARC A. VENUS)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Grace Christian Academy ended its annual mission convention last week with a Parade of Nations at the GCA chapel last Friday.<\/p>\n<p>School principal Beth Nunez said the Parade of Nations enables each of the school\u2019s grades to pray for a country of their choice. Nunez said the goal is for students to look beyond themselves and understand the needs outside of themselves, and care about other countries and other people.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s convention theme was \u201cEvery Tribe, Every Nation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Parade of Nations featured the following countries: South Korea, Japan, the Bahamas, Australia, Greece, Papua New Guinea, China, India, Spain, Russia, Mexico, Ireland, France, and Brazil. Each country was selected by the grade levels and were showcased through performances and fashion shows.<\/p>\n<p>Nunez said the first graders impressed her the most, as their presentation on the Bahamas shows that they care for a country that is currently recovering from a devastating hurricane, just like Saipan did after Super Typhoon Yutu. \u201cIt is more than showing the traditional costumes, as students learned about their countries and prayed for them as well,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grace Christian Academy ended its annual mission convention last week with a Parade of Nations&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[698],"class_list":["post-311061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-gca"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}