{"id":1311,"date":"2013-07-31T22:36:42","date_gmt":"2013-08-01T03:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johnyatesministry.com\/blog\/?p=1311"},"modified":"2015-10-23T09:33:22","modified_gmt":"2015-10-23T14:33:22","slug":"another-day-in-paradise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnyatesministry.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/31\/another-day-in-paradise\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Day in Paradise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I say that with a wink-wink, nod-nod, and a chuckle here or there. \u00a0It&#8217;s been &#8220;Honey do this&#8230;Honey do that&#8221;! \u00a0Please Lord, send me on the road once again.<\/p>\n<p>The kids\/family event in Pinckard, AL, went really well last night. \u00a0The folks were responsive and seemed to really be attentive. \u00a0I pray that although there was no movement during the invitation that the seed planted will grow in each heart and life.<\/p>\n<p>Each morning I&#8217;ve spent with the yard. \u00a0As you can imagine, with our travel schedule like it&#8217;s been, basic things like trimming limbs, pruning certain shrubbery, \u00a0and overall weeding and decluttering. \u00a0I&#8217;m taking each morning and doing that and in the afternoon preparing and rehearsing \u00a0for the next event. \u00a0So, all in all, staying really busy.<\/p>\n<p>We will head out this weekend for another family emphasis. \u00a0This time it&#8217;s an Awesome August Service at Ephesus Baptist Church in Forest, MS. \u00a0I&#8217;m honored and blessed to kick off this August series for them this year and this first Sunday is focused on the Family. \u00a0I will lead worship and preach in the morning service and present more of a relaxed family concert event for the evening.<\/p>\n<p>On the homefront, Patty&#8217;s dad seems to be tolerating his new series of chemo treatments pretty well. \u00a0The application is by injection and is half of what it was last time that was so difficult on him. \u00a0The good thing is that it seems easier on him. \u00a0The down side would be that any evidence of tumor reduction will be considerably slower. \u00a0All in all, we are just fine right now with things. \u00a0We will continue to balance this area of our lives with the ministry side and will be driving through Yazoo City and staying several days at a time just to see that things go well.<\/p>\n<p>We appreciate your prayers and support. \u00a0You are a blessing!<br \/>\nJohn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I say that with a wink-wink, nod-nod, and a chuckle here or there. \u00a0It&#8217;s been &#8220;Honey do this&#8230;Honey do that&#8221;! \u00a0Please Lord, send me on the road once again. The kids\/family event in Pinckard, AL, went really well last night. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johnyatesministry.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/31\/another-day-in-paradise\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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-1311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-unconfined"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnyatesministry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnyatesministry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnyatesministry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnyatesministry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnyatesministry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnyatesministry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1312,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnyatesministry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311\/revisions\/1312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnyatesministry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnyatesministry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnyatesministry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}