{"id":15045,"date":"2021-03-01T07:56:07","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T13:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/messagemagazinetesthome.wpcomstaging.com\/?p=15045"},"modified":"2021-08-11T18:54:24","modified_gmt":"2021-08-11T18:54:24","slug":"virtual-gathering-to-replace-2021-in-person-convention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openbiblemessage.org\/es\/2021\/03\/virtual-gathering-to-replace-2021-in-person-convention\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtual Gathering to Replace 2021 In-Person Convention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><span class=\"has-inline-color has-luminous-vivid-orange-color\">We are sorry to report that the 2021 Open Bible national in-person convention in Florida&nbsp;has been canceled. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Although every effort was made to provide a&nbsp;physically-distanced&nbsp;and safe on-location event,&nbsp;the&nbsp;National&nbsp;Board of&nbsp;Directors has concluded that it will be best for us to defer an on-location&nbsp;event&nbsp;until 2023.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A&nbsp;recent poll of ministers and other possible registrants indicated&nbsp;most likely&nbsp;only&nbsp;half of&nbsp;the&nbsp;typically anticipated&nbsp;number of&nbsp;registrants&nbsp;would attend&nbsp;the convention.&nbsp;(Registrants come from many parts of the country and restrictions vary among those locations.)&nbsp;With only half the normal number of&nbsp;participants&nbsp;able to attend, the Open Bible association&nbsp;would&nbsp;be obligated for thousands of dollars in commitments to the hotel&nbsp;and&nbsp;there would not be&nbsp;enough&nbsp;registrations to cover&nbsp;that loss.&nbsp;The association&nbsp;<em>always&nbsp;<\/em>subsidizes&nbsp;convention costs,&nbsp;but&nbsp;the issues&nbsp;faced&nbsp;this year&nbsp;would&nbsp;likely&nbsp;seriously escalate that cost.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All&nbsp;convention&nbsp;registration fees will be refunded and people who have made hotel reservations can cancel those. Convention room rates will no longer apply.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Watch for an upcoming&nbsp;announcement about&nbsp;an alternative virtual convention,&nbsp;although it&nbsp;won\u2019t look or be organized like an&nbsp;in-person&nbsp;convention. There will be separate online opportunities for involvement, including a business meeting where important bylaw amendments and other matters will be presented.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President Randall A. Bach said,&nbsp;\u201cThank you for your understanding. This is&nbsp;absolutely not&nbsp;the outcome we preferred. We have, however, been able to convert our&nbsp;2021&nbsp;Florida convention hotel contract&nbsp;into a&nbsp;contract for our&nbsp;2025 convention.&nbsp;We will still get to Florida, just not in 2021.&nbsp;An agreement for our 2023 national convention has already been signed for a location in a different part of the country (announcement&nbsp;to come&nbsp;later).\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">Stay tuned for information about our 2021 Virtual National Convention!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are sorry to report that the 2021 Open Bible national in-person convention in Florida&nbsp;has been canceled. 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