{"id":412,"date":"2015-05-14T12:41:31","date_gmt":"2015-05-14T17:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cogic.org\/adjutancy\/?p=412"},"modified":"2015-05-14T12:43:05","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T17:43:05","slug":"notice-of-episcopal-transition-bishop-joseph-ronald-willis-sr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cogic.org\/adjutancy\/2015\/05\/14\/notice-of-episcopal-transition-bishop-joseph-ronald-willis-sr\/","title":{"rendered":"Notice of Episcopal Transition &#8211; Bishop Joseph Ronald Willis, Sr."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tMay 13, 2015\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tDear Saints:\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThis correspondence is being sent at the request of the Adjutant General, Bishop Matthew Williams as per our Presiding Bishop Charles E. Blake. It is with great regret that I inform you of the passing of <strong>Bishop Joseph Ronald Willis, Sr.<\/strong>, Pastor of Foundation of Faith Church Of God In Christ and the Former Prelate of the Philippines Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"196\" height=\"245\" alt=\"bishop-jrwillis\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-413\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cogic.org\/adjutancy\/files\/2015\/05\/bishop-jrwillis.jpg\" style=\"width: 196px;height: 245px;border-width: 0px;border-style: solid;margin: 5px;float: right\" \/>The services for Bishop Willis will be as follows:\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n\t<strong>The Home going Celebration<\/strong><br \/>\n\t<strong><em>Friday, May 15, 2015, 11:00 a.m.<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n\t<em>(Viewing to begin at 10:00 a.m.)<\/em><br \/>\n\t<strong>St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church<\/strong><br \/>\n\t399614 14th Avenue &#8211; Sacramento, California 95820<br \/>\n\tBishop George Dallas McKinney, Officiating\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n\t<strong>The Interment<\/strong><br \/>\n\tArmed Force National Cemetery<br \/>\n\t5810 Midway Road &#8211; Dixon, California 95620\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tLet us be in prayer for the family and the jurisdiction during this most difficult time.&nbsp; If I can assist you further concerning this matter, please do not hesitate to call my office at 501.712.0048.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIn His Service,\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tBishop Robert G. Rudolph, Jr.<br \/>\n\t<em>Assistant General Secretary \/ Records and Archives<br \/>\n\tScribe of the Adjutancy<br \/>\n\tChurch Of God In Christ, Inc.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 13, 2015 Dear Saints: This correspondence is being sent at the request of the Adjutant General, Bishop Matthew Williams as per our Presiding Bishop Charles E. Blake. It is with great regret that I inform you of the passing of Bishop Joseph Ronald Willis, Sr., Pastor of Foundation of Faith Church Of God In&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[98,96,38,97],"class_list":["post-412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adjutanct","tag-bishop-george-dallas-mckinney","tag-bishop-joseph-ronald-willis-sr","tag-episcopal-transition","tag-philippines-ecclesiastical-jurisdiction","category-1","description-off"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogic.org\/adjutancy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogic.org\/adjutancy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogic.org\/adjutancy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogic.org\/adjutancy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogic.org\/adjutancy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogic.org\/adjutancy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":416,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogic.org\/adjutancy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions\/416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cogic.org\/adjutancy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogic.org\/adjutancy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cogic.org\/adjutancy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}