{"id":3307,"date":"2021-11-28T20:51:02","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T01:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stmattspringfield.org\/?p=3307"},"modified":"2021-11-28T20:51:02","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T01:51:02","slug":"first-advent-worship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stmattspringfield.org\/?p=3307","title":{"rendered":"First Advent Worship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Good afternoon, Church,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>You belong to Christ, in whom you have been baptized!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today is the First Sunday in Advent, and as such, the first day of a new church year.&nbsp; Today we also welcomed new members into the Family of Faith, as three sisters were baptized into Christ.&nbsp; We welcome Genevieve, Layla, and Everleigh to the family!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For those not able to attend, either in person or on Zoom, here is a link to a recording of the service:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1RR9PFOviuklYc-0OV19fu6pgqy3qaQ_o\/view?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1RR9PFOviuklYc-0OV19fu6pgqy3qaQ_o\/view?usp=sharing<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As you begin a new year of life in Christ, may you remember your baptism, and draw strength from the knowledge that Jesus has claimed you!<br>Pastor Karl Richard<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good afternoon, Church, You belong to Christ, in whom you have been baptized! Today is the First Sunday in Advent, and as such, the first day of a new church year.&nbsp; Today we also welcomed new members into the Family of Faith, as three sisters were baptized into Christ.&nbsp; We welcome Genevieve, Layla, and Everleigh&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3308,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[20,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-worship"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stmattspringfield.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Advent-C.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9IoBI-Rl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stmattspringfield.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stmattspringfield.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stmattspringfield.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmattspringfield.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmattspringfield.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stmattspringfield.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3309,"href":"https:\/\/stmattspringfield.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3307\/revisions\/3309"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmattspringfield.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stmattspringfield.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmattspringfield.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmattspringfield.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}