{"id":170,"date":"2009-08-27T22:52:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-28T02:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/example.org\/we-love-college-students"},"modified":"2009-08-27T22:52:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-28T02:52:00","slug":"we-love-college-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/2009\/08\/we-love-college-students.html","title":{"rendered":"We love college students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"at-xid-6a00d83524c19a69e20120a58161b5970c alignright\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;\" alt=\"Barton2\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/6a00d83524c19a69e20120a58161b5970c-320wi.jpg\" \/> &#8220;&#8230;encourage the young&#8230;&#8221;<\/em> (Titus 2:6 NIV).<\/p>\n<p>This past week has been busy for us as we welcomed the Barton College students back! We joined about 60 businesses and nonprofits on Monday as we ran a booth for our church at the Wilson Chamber of Commerce&#8217;s &#8220;Welcome Back Barton&#8221; day.<\/p>\n<p>We gave away PopTarts and fridge magnets (with our church info) to a huge crowd of students. It was great getting into spiritual conversations with college students and letting them know that we care about them.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"at-xid-6a00d83524c19a69e20120a52a9b1d970b alignleft\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; width: 209px; height: 156px;\" alt=\"Barton1\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/6a00d83524c19a69e20120a52a9b1d970b-320wi.jpg\" \/> Who knows what will come from this? College students are at a life crossroads. They are so open to change. I believe that it is mission critical that we offer them encouragement to follow God at this strategic time in their lives.<\/p>\n<p>Later in the week, it was my privilege to speak at Barton&#8217;s Campus Crusade for Christ weekly gathering. Stephen and Daniel led worship and I spoke. In a room full of students (especially freshman) we talked about how they could know God&#8217;s will for their lives.<\/p>\n<p>I love encouraging college students to give their lives to Christ and devote their future to Him!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8230;encourage the young&#8230;&#8221; (Titus 2:6 NIV). This past week has been busy for us as we welcomed the Barton College students back! We joined about 60 businesses and nonprofits on Monday as we ran a booth for our church at the Wilson Chamber of Commerce&#8217;s &#8220;Welcome Back Barton&#8221; day. We gave away PopTarts and fridge<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"location":[],"class_list":["post-170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170","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=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/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=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}