{"id":21517,"date":"2010-08-28T20:31:34","date_gmt":"2010-08-28T20:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/jake_dell-tabletop_pastoral_care\/"},"modified":"2010-08-28T20:31:34","modified_gmt":"2010-08-28T20:31:34","slug":"jake_dell-tabletop_pastoral_care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=21517","title":{"rendered":"Jake Dell (Living Church)&#8211;Tabletop Pastoral Care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christ Church uses remarkably simple equipment to take prayer to the people in southeast Schenectady, New York.<\/p>\n<p>I arrived at the church at 9 a.m. with Torre Bissell and we set up a 4-by-4 folding table with five chairs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPut it here,\u201d\u009d Torre said, pointing to the crack in the sidewalk that must have been the property line. \u201cThat way no one can say we\u2019re on the sidewalk. And point chairs this way, facing out. That way people don\u2019t feel trapped.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>And that was it. A laminated sign reading \u201cPrayer Table\u201d\u009d flapped from the front. Torre pulled out a pen and paper and jotted down my name and his and the day\u2019s date. Then he pulled out a bag of wooden crosses and laid out a few along with a thin paperback English Standard Version New Testament.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.livingchurch.org\/news\/news-updates\/2010\/8\/27\/tabletop-pastoral-care\">Read it all<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christ Church uses remarkably simple equipment to take prayer to the people in southeast Schenectady, New York. I arrived at the church at 9 a.m. with Torre Bissell and we set up a 4-by-4 folding table with five chairs. \u201cPut<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=21517\">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":[36,48,66,184,436,188,380],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-care","category-spiritualityprayer","category-tec-parishes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21517","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=21517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}