{"id":270,"date":"2007-12-19T14:52:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-19T19:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/example.org\/frisbee-golf-an"},"modified":"2017-01-05T16:44:19","modified_gmt":"2017-01-05T16:44:19","slug":"frisbee-golf-an","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/2007\/12\/frisbee-golf-an.html","title":{"rendered":"Frisbee golf and the art of being a city pastor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/garycombsorg.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2007\/12\/discgolf.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-full alignleft\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; width: 252px; height: 171px; border: 0px;\" title=\"Discgolf\" alt=\"Discgolf\" src=\"https:\/\/garycombsorg.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2007\/12\/discgolf.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>When I first felt called to do more than just be a pastor to our church, but to be a pastor to our whole city, I wasn&#8217;t sure what it would look like. What does a city pastor do?<\/p>\n<p>So, I decided to serve wherever doors opened. This past week they opened in places that I never anticipated&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I attended the monthly meeting of the Wilson Minister&#8217;s Association (of which I was formerly the president until last year). We met with a group of police officers, a Barton professor of criminology, and a rep from the juvenile court to discuss the growing concern of gang activity in Wilson. As pastors, we gave our support to help in any way we could.<\/p>\n<p>A few days later, as a member of the board of directors with a non profit group called &#8220;Youth of Wilson,&#8221; I helped interview and select a new director for this very important program that matches mentors and at-risk teens together for life mentoring. The woman we&#8217;re hiring has a lot of drive and plenty of experience. I&#8217;m hopeful that she can really lead this program well.<\/p>\n<p>Now, today I&#8217;ve just returned from Toisnot Park where I rode around our Disc Golf course with Dale, the guy in charge of grounds for Wilson Parks and Recreation. I sent an email complaining about the poor shape of the disc golf course earlier in the year and now I&#8217;m the designated expert. Dale says he doesn&#8217;t know anything about the sport, so he has named me his official &#8220;disc golf consultant.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Besides,&#8221; he says, &#8220;If someone doesn&#8217;t like the changes we make, who&#8217;s gonna get mad at a preacher?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Plenty of people.&#8221; I respond.<\/p>\n<p>Is this what it means to be a city pastor?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I first felt called to do more than just be a pastor to our church, but to be a pastor to our whole city, I wasn&#8217;t sure what it would look like. What does a city pastor do? So, I decided to serve wherever doors opened. This past week they opened in places that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1572,"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-270","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\/270","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=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5331,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions\/5331"}],"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=270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.garycombs.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}