{"id":4753,"date":"2026-05-26T14:36:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T18:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stmattspringfield.org\/?p=4753"},"modified":"2026-05-26T14:40:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T18:40:17","slug":"pentecost-worship-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stmattspringfield.org\/?p=4753","title":{"rendered":"Pentecost Worship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Good afternoon, Church,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Today we celebrate Pentecost<\/strong>&nbsp;and the sending of the Holy Spirit upon the disciples.&nbsp; This day is sometimes called the &#8220;Birthday of the Church.&#8221;&nbsp; &nbsp;It was fun to see so many people&nbsp;<strong>wearing red<\/strong>&nbsp;to remember the fire of the Holy Spirit igniting faith in the disciples and sending them out into the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For those unable to join us live, either in person or via Zoom, here is a link to the recording of the 9:30 service:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1Q0FYhFoXN3ifAmbH_agOYbBbkLoptREB\/view?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1Q0FYhFoXN3ifAmbH_agOYbBbkLoptREB\/view?usp=sharing<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Planting of the geraniums<\/strong><br>Due to the rain we postponed the planting of the&nbsp;geraniums from the service in the gardens around the church.&nbsp; We will let you now when we are planning to do this.&nbsp; Many hands can make quick work of placing the 73 plants in the gardens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mat the Spirit of God empower you to witness to the love of Jesus!<br>Pastor Karl Richard<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good afternoon, Church, Today we celebrate Pentecost&nbsp;and the sending of the Holy Spirit upon the disciples.&nbsp; This day is sometimes called the &#8220;Birthday of the Church.&#8221;&nbsp; &nbsp;It was fun to see so many people&nbsp;wearing red&nbsp;to remember the fire of the Holy Spirit igniting faith in the disciples and sending them out into the world. For&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4755,"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-4753","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\/2026\/05\/052426.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9IoBI-1eF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stmattspringfield.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4753","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=4753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stmattspringfield.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4754,"href":"https:\/\/stmattspringfield.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4753\/revisions\/4754"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmattspringfield.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stmattspringfield.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmattspringfield.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmattspringfield.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}