{"id":8954,"date":"2022-12-20T13:13:18","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T18:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nccumc.org\/bishop\/?p=8954"},"modified":"2022-12-20T14:09:38","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T19:09:38","slug":"thank-you-bishop-fairley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nccumc.org\/bishop\/2022\/12\/thank-you-bishop-fairley\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank You, Bishop Fairley!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As Bishop Fairley&#8217;s time among the people of the NC Conference comes to a close, leaders from around our Conference expressed their gratitude for him, for his wife, Dawn, and for their shared ministry life with us. Watch the video below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed alignwide is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Thank you, Bishop Fairley!\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/781672671?app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nccumc.org\/bishop\/thank-you-bishop-fairley\/\">We&#8217;ve created a form where you can share your words of gratitude as well<\/a>. The form will be open until January 17. 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