{"id":140,"date":"2009-03-14T23:11:21","date_gmt":"2009-03-14T23:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnyatesministry.org\/blog\/?p=136"},"modified":"2009-03-14T23:11:21","modified_gmt":"2009-03-14T23:11:21","slug":"flowery-branch-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnyatesministry.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/14\/flowery-branch-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"Flowery Branch, Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a good day and a busy one.\u00a0 I got to the church around 9:15 or so to find all our sound had been undone and things weren&#8217;t like they were when we left.\u00a0 The Children&#8217;s Pastor was shocked but apparently there is a small congregation that uses their facilities and although all outside groups and committees were to suspend meeting during this conference, this little congregation decided to meet anyway and I guess my stuff was kinda in their way.\u00a0 Oh well, glad I arrived when I did.\u00a0 With the help of our sound guy things were straightened out by 10 or so.<\/p>\n<p>After some opening games and music by the kid&#8217;s ministry worship leaders I did a &#8220;teaser&#8221; with one of my &#8220;friends&#8221;.\u00a0 I kinda hung out with the kids following that time while they played games, had crafts, then lunch.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At 3 p.m. there was more music by the team then I led in about 50 minutes of my &#8220;friends&#8221; as we talked about having a closer walk with the Lord and once that relationship was deeper, the relationship with parents and siblings would be stronger.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow morning I will have 2 kids worship services.\u00a0 The first with K-2 grade and the second with 3rd &#8211; 5th grade.\u00a0 Following the second service I will load up and drive home.\u00a0 The weather is pretty nasty and is supposed to be a lot of the same tomorrow so travel will be a little difficult.\u00a0 I appreciate your prayers.<\/p>\n<p>Blessings<br \/>\nJohn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a good day and a busy one.\u00a0 I got to the church around 9:15 or so to find all our sound had been undone and things weren&#8217;t like they were when we left.\u00a0 The Children&#8217;s Pastor was shocked &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johnyatesministry.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/14\/flowery-branch-saturday\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-unconfined"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnyatesministry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140","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=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnyatesministry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnyatesministry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnyatesministry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnyatesministry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}