{"id":330,"date":"2012-09-27T21:59:27","date_gmt":"2012-09-28T01:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christchurchnorthbay.ca\/wordpress\/?p=330"},"modified":"2012-09-28T04:43:49","modified_gmt":"2012-09-28T08:43:49","slug":"messy-church-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christchurchnorthbay.ca\/wordpress\/?p=330","title":{"rendered":"Messy Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow! Our first \"Messy Church\" time was just wonderful, with almost 60 people having a great time painting pumpkins into globes, making pipe cleaner insects, fingerpainting a mural and trying various challenges.<\/p>\n<p>Then we had a 6 foot diameter globe to play with outside and young kids and folks wishing they were kids too had a \"ball\" in the fall sunshine.<\/p>\n<p>The worship time featured a marvellous reading of the Creation story. Tammy had the children - and their adults - engaged and excited as they learned about how God created our world.<\/p>\n<p>We finished off with some singing, a grace and a great meal.<\/p>\n<p>All in all, we think that it was a wonderful time of worship, fun and community building. Thanks to all who made it happen - and even more to the Spirit who was so evidently there!<\/p>\n<p>You'll want to bring your young friends along and join us on October 25!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/christchurchnorthbay.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/MessyChurch.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-334\" title=\"MessyChurch\" src=\"http:\/\/christchurchnorthbay.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/MessyChurch.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"614\" height=\"409\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christchurchnorthbay.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/MessyChurch.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/christchurchnorthbay.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/MessyChurch-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/christchurchnorthbay.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/MessyChurch-640x425.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow! Our first \"Messy Church\" time was just wonderful, with almost 60 people having a great time painting pumpkins into globes, making pipe cleaner insects, fingerpainting a mural and trying various challenges. Then we had a 6 foot diameter globe to play with outside and young kids and folks wishing they were kids too had <a href=\"https:\/\/christchurchnorthbay.ca\/wordpress\/?p=330\" class=\"more-link\">...continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"Messy Church\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-330","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry","9":"h-as-article"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christchurchnorthbay.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christchurchnorthbay.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christchurchnorthbay.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christchurchnorthbay.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christchurchnorthbay.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=330"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/christchurchnorthbay.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":335,"href":"https:\/\/christchurchnorthbay.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions\/335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christchurchnorthbay.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christchurchnorthbay.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christchurchnorthbay.ca\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}