{"id":13351,"date":"2017-04-03T01:00:15","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T08:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/?p=13351"},"modified":"2017-04-04T22:19:03","modified_gmt":"2017-04-05T05:19:03","slug":"missions-monday-1-introduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/2017\/04\/03\/missions-monday-1-introduction\/","title":{"rendered":"Missions Monday #1 &#8211; Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>by Stephen Rodgers<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m extremely happy to introduce a new series here on the Beacon that addresses the topic of &#8220;missions&#8221; in the context of LBC. Our little church isn&#8217;t so little anymore, and there&#8217;s a pretty sizable number of attendees who have come since the last set of trips in 2015. So this will be a fantastic opportunity for people who&#8217;ve been-there-done-that to reflect and reminisce, as well as for the relative newcomers to discover why missions is such a big deal at LBC. And more than just <em>knowledge<\/em>, the hope here is that this will lead to greater church-wide <em>involvement<\/em> in this particular ministry.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe you&#8217;ve asked yourself one or more of the following questions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What is LBC&#8217;s theology of missions?<\/li>\n<li>Why do we go to the Czech Republic and Argentina?<\/li>\n<li>Who&#8217;s going?<\/li>\n<li>What even happens on a missions trip anyways?<\/li>\n<li>How can the church help?<\/li>\n<li>What&#8217;s a &#8220;Meinolf?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Where can I immerse myself in media relevant to past trips?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All of these and more will be answered in the coming weeks. I&#8217;m looking forward to it myself, and I&#8217;m\u00a0<em>really<\/em> looking forward to getting these articles in front of all of you.<\/p>\n<p>See you next Monday!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Stephen Rodgers I&#8217;m extremely happy to introduce a new series here on the Beacon that addresses the topic of &#8220;missions&#8221; in the context of LBC. Our little church isn&#8217;t so little anymore, and there&#8217;s a pretty sizable number of attendees who have come since the last set of trips in 2015. So this will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":469,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-missions"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/469"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13351"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13365,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13351\/revisions\/13365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}