{"id":2001,"date":"2007-01-29T00:55:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-29T06:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=2001"},"modified":"2012-05-15T16:36:48","modified_gmt":"2012-05-15T22:36:48","slug":"an-army-cup-of-tea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/an-army-cup-of-tea\/","title":{"rendered":"An Army cup of tea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/132\/372400136_b8bb806840.jpg\" width=300><br \/>\nMy mate <a href=\"http:\/\/nanolog.blogspot.com\">Thomas<\/A> over in Scotland is a member of the local Salvation Army and they&#8217;ve put together a <a href=\"http:\/\/nanolog.blogspot.com\/2007\/01\/there-is-nothing-like-army-cup-of-tea.html\">great way<\/A> to connect with those around them.<br \/>\nChurch members were given two coffee mugs with a wafer and free trade tea bag. The mugs also come with a prayer card for receivers of the gift to respond with prayer needs to the church.<br \/>\nAs i understand it, members are encouraged to connect with a family member, friend, neighbor, co-worker or whomever over a cup of tea.<br \/>\nwhat better way to make a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/uncategorized\/walking-the-walk\/\">personal connection<\/A> and promote the message of Christ.<br \/>\nI wonder if churches could get the local Starbucks or another company to donate a &#8220;buy-one get-one free card for a coffee or tea. That might be a helpful push to get church goers to invite a friend or family member to spend time talking with them over a cup of coffee.<br \/>\nOtherwise it would be super cool to do the same thing with a custom <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.discountmugs.com\/usa\/coffee-mugs-7102-basic.htm\">coffee mug<\/span>.<br \/>\nGet out and invite someone to coffee at your favorite local spot, or even into your own home. Show them the love of Christ in a real way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My mate Thomas over in Scotland is a member of the local Salvation Army and they&#8217;ve put together a great way to connect with those around them. Church members were given two coffee mugs with a wafer and free trade tea bag. The mugs also come with a prayer card for receivers of the gift &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/an-army-cup-of-tea\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">An Army cup of tea<\/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":[18],"tags":[2993,2992,1684,1320,1135,2991],"class_list":["post-2001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","tag-coffee-mug","tag-cup","tag-message","tag-relationship","tag-salvation-army","tag-tea"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-wh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2001","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=2001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}