{"id":112,"date":"2010-11-11T19:45:17","date_gmt":"2010-11-12T00:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/example.org\/taking-it-to-the-streets"},"modified":"2010-11-11T19:45:17","modified_gmt":"2010-11-12T00:45:17","slug":"taking-it-to-the-streets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/2010\/11\/taking-it-to-the-streets.html","title":{"rendered":"Taking it to the streets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d83524c19a69e20133f5c7299e970b alignleft\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" title=\"Ezine edit\" alt=\"Ezine edit\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/6a00d83524c19a69e20133f5c7299e970b-320wi.jpg\" \/> <em>&#8220;Go out quickly into the streets and alleys of the town and bring in the poor, the crippled, the blind and the lame&#8221;<\/em> (Luke 14:21 NIV).<\/p>\n<p>We took our church to the streets again this past weekend at Wilson&#8217;s Whirligig Festival. This was\u00a0our third year setting up a booth at the festival. Last year, over 20,000\u00a0attended the weekend event.\u00a0The\u00a0sudden cold snap probably reduced the\u00a0crowds a little this year, but our booth stayed busy\u00a0anyway. In fact, we surpassed last year&#8217;s fund raiser for Hope Station (a local food pantry and homeless shelter) by raising\u00a0$1,358.00!<\/p>\n<p>Sonny Allen, our WCC Director of Contribution and his great team, led this churchwide effort for us. They had our WCCers selling cotton candy and raffle tickets for a donated laptop and rocking chair. We offered a special section for kids too, with free hair-painting and a craft table where they could build their own whirligig!<\/p>\n<p>It was fun taking our church to the streets while raising money to help Hope Station. We made a lot of friends, we supported our city, and I think we obeyed Christ&#8217;s parable in Luke 14 to &#8220;go out&#8221; and take our church to the streets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Go out quickly into the streets and alleys of the town and bring in the poor, the crippled, the blind and the lame&#8221; (Luke 14:21 NIV). We took our church to the streets again this past weekend at Wilson&#8217;s Whirligig Festival. This was\u00a0our third year setting up a booth at the festival. Last year, over<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2060,2061,1,2062],"tags":[],"location":[],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs","category-religion","category-uncategorized","category-weblogs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}