{"id":56369,"date":"2016-11-17T21:16:15","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T21:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ct_ministry_after_the_orlando_massacre-3_pastors_share_what_they_have_lear\/"},"modified":"2016-11-17T21:16:15","modified_gmt":"2016-11-17T21:16:15","slug":"ct_ministry_after_the_orlando_massacre-3_pastors_share_what_they_have_lear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=56369","title":{"rendered":"(CT) Ministry after the Orlando Massacre&#8211;3 pastors share what they have learned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When David Uth, senior pastor of First Baptist Church of Orlando, heard of the shooting, he contacted several local pastors, telling them, \u201cWe have to minister to this community. This is a broken place now.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>For First Baptist, that meant serving the Hispanic community. The church\u2019s Spanish-ministry pastor, , assessed needs and looked for ways to demonstrate the love of Christ. The church became aware of two young men critically wounded in the attack who were in intensive care and would soon lose their condo because they could not work.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe contacted them and told them not to worry,\u201d\u009d said Uth. \u201cWe told them we were going to cover their rent until they were able to get back on their feet.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>First Baptist also offered their facilities free of charge to victims\u2019 families who wanted to hold funerals for their loved ones.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/2016\/november-web-exclusives\/ministry-after-massacre.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When David Uth, senior pastor of First Baptist Church of Orlando, heard of the shooting, he contacted several local pastors, telling them, \u201cWe have to minister to this community. This is a broken place now.\u201d\u009d For First Baptist, that meant<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=56369\">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":[48,39,40,50,209,168,435,184,177,108,148,34,105,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-religion-culture","category-terrorism","category-theology","category-urbancity-life-and-issues","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56369","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=56369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}