{"id":4890,"date":"2014-11-29T15:36:09","date_gmt":"2014-11-29T19:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/?p=4890"},"modified":"2015-12-04T20:42:32","modified_gmt":"2015-12-05T00:42:32","slug":"blue-christmas-service-122214","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/?p=4890","title":{"rendered":"Blue Christmas Service (12\/22\/14)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Many of us lost loved ones during this year.\u00a0 Some of us lost loved ones years ago, but still feel the emptiness.\u00a0 For any of us, the family traditions of the holidays bring back memories of Christmases past.\u00a0 During this holiday season we are especially aware of those who have walked with us and who are an integral part of those memories; but now they&#8217;re gone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\">On Monday December 22 at 7:00 PM we will pause to reflect on loved ones who have passed to eternity.\u00a0 Even as we celebrate the birth of Christ, we still mourn the loss of loved ones. This service will be held in the Chapel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For more information on &#8220;Blue Christmases&#8221; or &#8220;Longest Nights&#8221;, check out the following &#8220;Chuck Knows Church video&#8230;.<\/p>\n<address>(Note:\u00a0 The light hearted opening gives way to a serious discussion of how we can find hope in the face of darkness).<\/address>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"56 | Blue Christmas -- Chuck Knows Church\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/paWHd62raYs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of us lost loved ones during this year.\u00a0 Some of us lost loved ones years ago, but still feel the emptiness.\u00a0 For any of us, the family traditions of the holidays bring back memories of Christmases past.\u00a0 During this holiday season we are especially aware of those who have walked with us and who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,14],"tags":[123,72],"class_list":["post-4890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evann","category-worship","tag-christmas","tag-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4890"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9636,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4890\/revisions\/9636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}