{"id":149,"date":"2009-04-06T16:01:02","date_gmt":"2009-04-06T16:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnyatesministry.org\/blog\/?p=145"},"modified":"2009-04-06T16:01:02","modified_gmt":"2009-04-06T16:01:02","slug":"home-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnyatesministry.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/06\/home-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We arrived home last night after\u00a0a 10\u00a0day road trip.\u00a0 It was a tiring one but filled with a number of victories.\u00a0 While in Mathews, LA, we saw a 73 year dear lady who&#8217;s been active in the church most of her life, come to Christ.\u00a0 Seeing her\u00a0experience real peace and relief was a really special time.<\/p>\n<p>Following the revival services we headed to Yazoo City to visit overnight with parents and do odd jobs around the house.\u00a0 I was able to &#8220;fix&#8221; a few things, cut the yard and put out fertilizer for dad so that was nice.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday we drove to Belmont, MS, for a weekend of ministry.\u00a0 Saturday night was AWANA Family night and it included games, inflatables, supper, and a service by me.\u00a0 Lots of fun.\u00a0 On Sunday I led in the service.\u00a0 At the invitation there was a young couple that came forward.\u00a0 The wife has been active with the kids programs at the church and her husband is a different denomination and attends, ordinarily, elsewhere.\u00a0 He came forward to profess Christ as Savior, saying he realized he had been living without Christ and had been baptized having never made that specific decision to follow Christ.\u00a0 That was awesome!<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for your prayers.\u00a0 We&#8217;re home until Friday when we head to Luling, LA, for an Easter weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Blessings,<br \/>\nJohn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We arrived home last night after\u00a0a 10\u00a0day road trip.\u00a0 It was a tiring one but filled with a number of victories.\u00a0 While in Mathews, LA, we saw a 73 year dear lady who&#8217;s been active in the church most of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johnyatesministry.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/06\/home-3\/\">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-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-unconfined"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnyatesministry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","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=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnyatesministry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnyatesministry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnyatesministry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnyatesministry.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}