{"id":62,"date":"2016-03-09T03:13:52","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T03:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/louisianabaptists.org\/opa\/?p=62"},"modified":"2019-07-16T15:00:09","modified_gmt":"2019-07-16T15:00:09","slug":"2016-louisiana-family-forum-pastors-briefing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/louisianabaptists.org\/opp\/2016-louisiana-family-forum-pastors-briefing\/","title":{"rendered":"2016 Louisiana Family Forum Pastor&#8217;s Briefing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Pastor and Church Leader:<\/p>\n<p>Please make plans to attend the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/pastors-legislative-briefing-tickets-22131324387?utm-medium=discovery&amp;utm-campaign=social&amp;utm-content=attendeeshare&amp;utm-source=cp&amp;utm-term=listing\"><strong>2016 Louisiana Family Forum Pastors\u2019 Briefing<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0immediately following the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lagpb.org\/\"><strong>52nd\u00a0Annual Louisiana Governor\u2019s Prayer Breakfast<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>on<strong>\u00a0March 23, 2016.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Governor\u2019s Prayer Breakfast, 7:30AM \u2013 9:00AM (<\/strong><strong><em>Baton Rouge River Center, 275 River Street S.<\/em><\/strong>) Tickets are available\u00a0<u>for purchase<\/u>\u00a0at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lagpb.org\/\">www.lagpb.org<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Louisiana Family Forum Pastors\u2019 Briefing, 9:15AM \u2013 1:15PM\u00a0 (<\/strong><em><strong>Baton Rouge River Center, East side of the Ballroom)<\/strong><\/em><em>.\u00a0<\/em>Click\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/pastors-legislative-briefing-tickets-22131324387?utm-medium=discovery&amp;utm-campaign=social&amp;utm-content=attendeeshare&amp;utm-source=cp&amp;utm-term=listing\">here<\/a>\u00a0for FREE Registration (includes FREE lunch).<em>\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Louisiana Baptists Office of Public Policy is partnering with the Louisiana Family Forum to give you an opportunity to network with other Christian leaders in order to build relationships and to learn about what has taken place during the early days of the legislative session.<\/p>\n<p><em>Speakers will\u00a0<\/em>give updates on state and national events relating to Christian life and ministry in the public square, and, also highlight policy initiatives and special legislation that will be pursued that reflect Louisianans\u2019 Christian values and vision.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Following the legislative briefing, a<\/strong><strong>\u00a0working lunch (free) will be provided with a message presented by special guest speaker Ken Blackwell, FRC Senior Fellow for Family Empowerment.\u00a0<\/strong>Blackwell served as the Ohio Secretary of State from 1999 to 2007 and is a strong voice for criminal justice reform<strong>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In addition, a<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>host of legislative guest presenters will be in attendance, including Rep. Mike Johnson, Rep. Rick Edmonds, Attorney General Jeff Landry, and Treasurer John Kennedy.\u00a0<strong>Governor John Bel Edwards has been invited, too.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you have any questions, please contact Louisiana Baptists Office of Public Policy, 318-449-4348,<u><a href=\"mailto:policy@lbc.org\">policy@lbc.org<\/a><\/u>; or, the Louisiana Family Forum office, 225-344-8533,\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:info@lafamilyforum.org\">info@lafamilyforum.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Pastor and Church Leader: Please make plans to attend the\u00a02016 Louisiana Family Forum Pastors\u2019 Briefing\u00a0immediately following the\u00a052nd\u00a0Annual Louisiana Governor\u2019s Prayer Breakfast\u00a0on\u00a0March 23, 2016.\u00a0 Governor\u2019s Prayer Breakfast, 7:30AM \u2013 9:00AM (Baton Rouge River Center, 275 River Street S.) Tickets are available\u00a0for purchase\u00a0at\u00a0www.lagpb.org. Louisiana Family Forum Pastors\u2019 Briefing, 9:15AM \u2013 1:15PM\u00a0 (Baton Rouge River Center, East side of the Ballroom).\u00a0Click\u00a0here\u00a0for FREE Registration (includes FREE lunch).\u00a0 The Louisiana Baptists Office of Public Policy is partnering with the Louisiana Family Forum to give you an opportunity to network with other Christian leaders in order to build relationships and to learn about what has taken place during the early days of the legislative session. Speakers will\u00a0give updates on state and national events relating to Christian life and ministry in the public square, and, also highlight policy initiatives and special legislation that will be pursued that reflect Louisianans\u2019 Christian values and vision. Following the legislative briefing, a\u00a0working lunch (free) will be provided with a message presented by special guest speaker Ken Blackwell, FRC Senior Fellow for Family Empowerment.\u00a0Blackwell served as the Ohio Secretary of State from 1999 to 2007 and is a strong voice for criminal justice reform.\u00a0 In addition, a\u00a0host of legislative guest presenters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/louisianabaptists.org\/opp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/louisianabaptists.org\/opp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/louisianabaptists.org\/opp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/louisianabaptists.org\/opp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/louisianabaptists.org\/opp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/louisianabaptists.org\/opp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63,"href":"https:\/\/louisianabaptists.org\/opp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions\/63"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/louisianabaptists.org\/opp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/louisianabaptists.org\/opp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/louisianabaptists.org\/opp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}