{"id":3317,"date":"2023-04-15T20:22:26","date_gmt":"2023-04-16T01:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/?p=3317"},"modified":"2023-04-15T20:22:26","modified_gmt":"2023-04-16T01:22:26","slug":"our-churches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/2023\/04\/our-churches\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Churches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the years since our marriage, Joanne and I have been members of twelve churches. Each one was unique in its contribution to our family.\u00a0\u00a0Each one was unique in the contribution we made to it.\u00a0\u00a0We watched our two children grow up in five of them.\u00a0\u00a0I baptized our daughter at one, watched our son get baptized at another, and baptized our granddaughter at still another. We attended weddings, funerals, baby dedications and other such special occasions at most.\u00a0\u00a0In addition to our tithe, we assisted financially with three building programs and with mission offerings at each.\u00a0\u00a0Between the two of us, we\u2019ve traveled and represented these churches in mission projects in fifty-nine countries.\u00a0\u00a0We\u2019ve had twelve pastors, and two Interim Pastors, plus I served as Pastor at two of them (one while in college; another while in seminary).\u00a0\u00a0We still communicate with friends from ten of the twelve.\u00a0\u00a0Over the same number of years, I served twenty-nine churches in two states as Interim Pastor.\u00a0\u00a0While limited by distance in some and family responsibilities in others, Joanne has accompanied me in many of these. Needless to say, churches, even with all their diversity, have been a major part of our marriage and our family. \u201cSo we,\u00a0<em>being<\/em>\u00a0many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the years since our marriage, Joanne and I have been members of twelve churches. Each one was unique in its contribution to our family.\u00a0\u00a0Each one was unique in the contribution we made to it.\u00a0\u00a0We watched our two children grow up in five of them.\u00a0\u00a0I baptized our daughter at one, watched our son get baptized&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monday-morning-manna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3318,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3317\/revisions\/3318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}