{"id":17697,"date":"2010-02-03T19:10:36","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T19:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/hundreds_of_christian_men_gather_in_portland_oregon_to_reconnect_reach_out\/"},"modified":"2010-02-03T19:10:36","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T19:10:36","slug":"hundreds_of_christian_men_gather_in_portland_oregon_to_reconnect_reach_out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=17697","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds of Christian Men gather in Portland Oregon to reconnect, reach out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twelve hundred men sat silently inside New Hope Community Church on Saturday morning watching Kevin Costner plunge from a helicopter into a churning sea. Playing a Coast Guard rescue swimmer, Costner fought powerful waves and a desperate, frightened man to save two lives in the clip from &#8220;The Guardian.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Earlier Mike Silva, a Christian evangelist based in Portland, had reminded participants in the Northwest Men&#8217;s Conference of the rescue swimmers&#8217; motto: &#8220;So others may live.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When the clip ended, the lights came back on. The room was still quiet.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are people everywhere drowning,&#8221; Silva said softly. &#8220;They are so exhausted they can&#8217;t keep up the fight. The only thing that ever kept me afloat in turbulent times was the Bible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/living\/index.ssf\/2010\/01\/hundreds_of_christian_men_gath.html\">Read the whole article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twelve hundred men sat silently inside New Hope Community Church on Saturday morning watching Kevin Costner plunge from a helicopter into a churning sea. Playing a Coast Guard rescue swimmer, Costner fought powerful waves and a desperate, frightened man to<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=17697\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,42,419,125,154,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-evangelicals","category-men","category-other-churches","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}