{"id":34313,"date":"2012-08-30T16:30:14","date_gmt":"2012-08-30T16:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bp_in_vermont_homeless_christians_give_69-40_to_missions\/"},"modified":"2012-08-30T16:30:14","modified_gmt":"2012-08-30T16:30:14","slug":"bp_in_vermont_homeless_christians_give_69-40_to_missions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=34313","title":{"rendered":"(BP) In Vermont Homeless Christians give $69.40 to missions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A $69.40 offering by a group of homeless Christians in Vermont reminds a local Baptist leader of the widow&#8217;s two mites that Jesus commended in the Gospels.<\/p>\n<p>Terry Dorsett, director of the Green Mountain Baptist Association, has a new perception of the homeless because of the gift to the association&#8217;s mission offering for starting new churches and meeting church financial emergencies. Dorsett has asked the financially able among the association&#8217;s 35 churches to match the donation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think we tend to think of homeless people just as being a bunch of addicts and people with problems,&#8221; Dorsett said. &#8220;And then while that does describe many homeless people, there&#8217;s a whole subculture of homeless Christians who obviously don&#8217;t have those problems and they&#8217;re just trying to live for the Lord in a different lifestyle setting than most of us might choose.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bpnews.net\/BPnews.asp?ID=38608\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A $69.40 offering by a group of homeless Christians in Vermont reminds a local Baptist leader of the widow&#8217;s two mites that Jesus commended in the Gospels. Terry Dorsett, director of the Green Mountain Baptist Association, has a new perception<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=34313\">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":[48,39,42,175,422,182,154,184,177,88,108,441,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-anthropology","category-baptists","category-missions","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-poverty","category-religion-culture","category-stewardship","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34313","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=34313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}