{"id":4513,"date":"2025-05-05T19:32:31","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T23:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stmattspringfield.org\/?p=4513"},"modified":"2025-05-18T21:47:51","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T01:47:51","slug":"may-4th-worship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stmattspringfield.org\/?p=4513","title":{"rendered":"May 4th Worship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Good evening, Church,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We had a moving service to mark the ending of the congregational ministry of Community of Love Lutheran Church in Oxford this afternoon.&nbsp; For 29 years this mission congregation has been a place of worship and outreach to this Chester County community.&nbsp; Ultimately the worship community needed to close, but the Boutique shop that provides clothing to people in need will continue.&nbsp; Please keep the members of this former congregation in prayer as they look for new places to worship and serve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today we celebrated the baptism of Ryan Michael Maffei, Jr.\u00a0 What a wonderful day it is when we can welcome a new saint into the fellowship of Christ!\u00a0 For those unable to join us live, here is the link to the video of the 9:30 service:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1UKayCmdjFWE9M3uctKYQXjqm7GThjxW4\/view?usp=drive_link\">https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1UKayCmdjFWE9M3uctKYQXjqm7GThjxW4\/view?usp=drive_link<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Christ is Risen indeed!<br>Pastor Karl Richard<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good evening, Church, We had a moving service to mark the ending of the congregational ministry of Community of Love Lutheran Church in Oxford this afternoon.&nbsp; For 29 years this mission congregation has been a place of worship and outreach to this Chester County community.&nbsp; Ultimately the worship community needed to close, but the Boutique&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4519,"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-4513","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\/2025\/05\/050425.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9IoBI-1aN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stmattspringfield.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4513","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=4513"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stmattspringfield.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4520,"href":"https:\/\/stmattspringfield.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4513\/revisions\/4520"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmattspringfield.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stmattspringfield.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmattspringfield.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmattspringfield.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}