{"id":58,"date":"2007-09-24T18:20:02","date_gmt":"2007-09-25T01:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emergentbrethren.org\/?p=58"},"modified":"2007-09-24T18:20:02","modified_gmt":"2007-09-25T01:20:02","slug":"a-neighborhood-pork-roast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emergentbrethren.org\/?p=58","title":{"rendered":"A Neighborhood Pork Roast&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At <a href=\"http:\/\/joyfilled.com\">Community of Joy<\/a>, we really want to be a place where relationships matter&#8230;. so when we renovated a church into a ministry center in a great diverse neighborhood, we set out to meet the neighbors.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Yesterday, Sept. 23, we held a Pork Roast after our worship gathering for the neighbors.\u00c2\u00a0 We went door to door in a two block radius of our building two weeks ago and handed out or left invitations to the festivities&#8230; the invite also included worship.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 We also put out a large lighted sign inviting the neighborhood.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Everything was free&#8230; we also challenged our folks to invite 3 people to come.\u00c2\u00a0 I am happy to say that we doubled our normal worship attendance yesterday and had neighbors coming from all directions&#8230;. don&#8217;t know how many came&#8230; I would venture to say aroudn 150 &#8211; 200 in all&#8230;.check out my blog for more info and pics&#8230;. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.martinhutchison.blogspot.com\">www.martinhutchison.blogspot.com<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 There was no agenda other than saying we are happy to be here and we want to be a positive force in the hood.\u00c2\u00a0 What are others of you doing to engage your communities?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Community of Joy, we really want to be a place where relationships matter&#8230;. so when we renovated a church into a ministry center in a great diverse neighborhood, we set out to meet the neighbors.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Yesterday, Sept. 23, we held a Pork Roast after our worship gathering for the neighbors.\u00c2\u00a0 We went door to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emergentbrethren.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emergentbrethren.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emergentbrethren.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emergentbrethren.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emergentbrethren.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/emergentbrethren.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emergentbrethren.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emergentbrethren.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emergentbrethren.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}