Dear Church,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We have come to the end of a very long, but wonderful day.\u00a0 We celebrated with the families of seven of our youth as they were confirmed in the faith at the 9:30 service.\u00a0 Those who were confirmed include Gavin Aloi, Joe Cirillo, Isaac Godfrey, Anna Kinder, Luke McCallum, Evan Plachuta, and Greg Smith.\u00a0 A link to the video for those unable to attend, or who wish to watch the youth again, is available here: May the Holy Spirit continue to guide our youth, and all of us, in the mission we share to proclaim the love of God in Christ Jesus, our Lord. Dear Church, We have come to the end of a very long, but wonderful day.\u00a0 We celebrated with the families of seven of our youth as they were confirmed in the faith at the 9:30 service.\u00a0 Those who were confirmed include Gavin Aloi, Joe Cirillo, Isaac Godfrey, Anna Kinder, Luke McCallum, Evan Plachuta, and Greg…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4534,"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-4532","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\/06\/060825.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9IoBI-1b6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stmattspringfield.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4532","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=4532"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stmattspringfield.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4541,"href":"https:\/\/stmattspringfield.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4532\/revisions\/4541"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmattspringfield.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stmattspringfield.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmattspringfield.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmattspringfield.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1xvoQ3oCvfJ5FGcDRKBkDYsSbQIAtYKun\/view?usp=sharing<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pastor Karl Richard<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"