{"id":95310,"date":"2020-09-14T12:02:06","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T16:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=95310"},"modified":"2020-09-14T19:13:56","modified_gmt":"2020-09-14T23:13:56","slug":"abc-aus-rodeo-bronc-rider-to-christian-leader-keith-christie-celebrates-churchs-20-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=95310","title":{"rendered":"(ABC Aus.) Rodeo bronc rider to Christian leader, Keith Christie celebrates church&#8217;s 20 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before Pastor Keith Christie joined the church he was a rodeo-going bronc rider with what he described as a &#8220;pretty bad attitude&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Standing in Mount Isa&#8217;s Christian Outreach Centre, it is hard to draw any parallel between the Pastor Keith who stands before you and the photos of the bronc rider on his office walls.<\/p>\n<p>Pastor Keith reopened the Christian Outreach Centre two decades ago and celebrated the milestone last month.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2020-09-08\/from-bronc-rider-to-mount-isa-pastor\/12636082\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Before Pastor Keith Christie joined the church he was a rodeo-going bronc rider with what he described as a &quot;pretty bad attitude&quot;. Now he and his &#39;blue army&#39; of church volunteers offer community assistance to anyone in need. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jLTDENzPMk\">https:\/\/t.co\/jLTDENzPMk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ABC Religion&amp;Ethics (@ABCReligion) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ABCReligion\/status\/1304624291837874176?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 12, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before Pastor Keith Christie joined the church he was a rodeo-going bronc rider with what he described as a &#8220;pretty bad attitude&#8221;. Standing in Mount Isa&#8217;s Christian Outreach Centre, it is hard to draw any parallel between the Pastor Keith<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=95310\">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":[204,435,184,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia-nz","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95310","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=95310"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95312,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95310\/revisions\/95312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}