{"id":149,"date":"2005-06-17T20:29:28","date_gmt":"2005-06-18T02:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=149"},"modified":"2005-06-17T20:29:28","modified_gmt":"2005-06-18T02:29:28","slug":"youth-ministry-for-big-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/youth-ministry-for-big-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Youth Ministry for Big People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not going to lie &#8211; this fires me up!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.churchmarketingsucks.com\/archives\/2005\/06\/youth_ministry.html\">Church Marketing Sucks<\/a> points to a story from Willow Creek about using multi-generational strategies in their church.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Fannie Hamilton sat among teenagers during the Sunday service. She used her left hand to hold up her stroke-affected right hand in praise, belting out the words to &#8216;My Glorious&#8217; by Delirious. A few minutes later, she stood next to a 16-year-old, who joined her in belting out the words to &#8216;Great Is Thy Faithfulness.&#8217; She was a small group leader in our youth ministry at the age of 82.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m fired up. That really gets me going to see that image in my head.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not going to lie &#8211; this fires me up! Church Marketing Sucks points to a story from Willow Creek about using multi-generational strategies in their church. Fannie Hamilton sat among teenagers during the Sunday service. She used her left hand to hold up her stroke-affected right hand in praise, belting out the words to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/youth-ministry-for-big-people\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Youth Ministry for Big People<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-2p","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}