{"id":59445,"date":"2017-04-30T07:19:05","date_gmt":"2017-04-30T11:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=59445"},"modified":"2017-04-30T07:19:05","modified_gmt":"2017-04-30T11:19:05","slug":"church-of-england-what-is-the-role-of-a-godparent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=59445","title":{"rendered":"(Church of England) What is the role of a Godparent?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Godparents are among the most important people at a christening, who make big promises to encourage their godchild to grow in faith and commit to helping them understand how to live their life in a Christian way.<\/p>\n<p>Alongside your godchild\u2019s parents, you will<\/p>\n<p>Give your time to your godchild to talk to about the bigger questions of life \u2013 questions about hope, faith and love.<br \/>\nModel and encourage them to develop Christian values \u2013 being kind and compassionate towards others, being generous towards others in need with time or money and standing against things in the world that cause injustice and suffering.<\/p>\n<p>Pray for your godchild through the ups and downs of their life and their faith journey&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/churchofenglandchristenings.org\/godparents\/role-godparent\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Godparents are among the most important people at a christening, who make big promises to encourage their godchild to grow in faith and commit to helping them understand how to live their life in a Christian way. Alongside your godchild\u2019s<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=59445\">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":[581,101,389,98,173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baptism","category-children","category-church-of-england-coe","category-marriage-family","category-sacramental-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59445","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=59445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59446,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59445\/revisions\/59446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}