{"id":142,"date":"2009-03-23T03:10:46","date_gmt":"2009-03-23T03:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnyatesministry.org\/blog\/?p=138"},"modified":"2009-03-23T03:10:46","modified_gmt":"2009-03-23T03:10:46","slug":"meridian-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnyatesministry.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/23\/meridian-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"Meridian, Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was quite a day.\u00a0 It began when the alarm went off at 6 a.m. for us to have time for &#8220;morning rituals&#8221; and breakfast before having a prayer time and sound check at 8 a.m. at the church.\u00a0 I did kids Sunday School.\u00a0 It was a lot of fun.\u00a0 The kids were great and very responsive.\u00a0 For the worship service I began things with a trumpet piece then right after the welcome I used one of my &#8220;friends&#8221;.\u00a0 It was for a kids time but had a sneaky adult message meaning it sneaks up on the adults as they listen in amusement at the &#8220;kids&#8221; message.<\/p>\n<p>We had a couple of hours back at the hotel this afternoon by the time we got through with lunch then headed back to the church for yet another sound check at 4:30 and all the prep work to get things in line for the concert.\u00a0 The pastor was a little bit concerned being this Sunday was the close of spring break and the average age for this church is 35.\u00a0 How bout that?\u00a0 Lots of little ones and growing.\u00a0 Anyway, there ended up being a great crowd and the evening was great.\u00a0 Even had an altar full at the invitation.\u00a0 A great night.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow we&#8217;ll head out and looking forward to a nice week at home. Thank you for your prayer support.\u00a0 It is much needed and greatly appreciated.<\/p>\n<p>John<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was quite a day.\u00a0 It began when the alarm went off at 6 a.m. for us to have time for &#8220;morning rituals&#8221; and breakfast before having a prayer time and sound check at 8 a.m. at the church.\u00a0 I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johnyatesministry.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/23\/meridian-sunday\/\">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-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-unconfined"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnyatesministry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","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=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnyatesministry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnyatesministry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnyatesministry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnyatesministry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}