{"id":186,"date":"2006-01-02T00:37:40","date_gmt":"2006-01-02T08:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.katylee.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/02\/church-family\/"},"modified":"2006-01-02T00:37:40","modified_gmt":"2006-01-02T08:37:40","slug":"church-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/02\/church-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Church family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We just came back from dinner with several families of our church. Sharing a meal together brings people together in a special way.  It is these times of sharing that I appreciate our church.<\/p>\n<p>We go to a small church. Sometimes it seems like we take 2 steps forward and 3 steps back! Our church facility needs renovating and could use a touch of class. Activities are not coordinated well. Programs could be better organized. <\/p>\n<p>But if you look beyond the machinery, turn your attention to the faces, you will see the heart and soul of a church family. Our children laughing and eating together. We help each other wherever there is a need.  There is freedom here to be yourself, use your God-giving gifts, and contribute to the building up of eah another across generations. <\/p>\n<p>There are many areas that could use improvement. That, I think, is just part of being a family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We just came back from dinner with several families of our church. Sharing a meal together brings people together in a special way. It is these times of sharing that I appreciate our church. We go to a small church. Sometimes it seems like we take 2 steps forward and 3 steps back! Our church [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}