{"id":439,"date":"2016-12-10T15:07:53","date_gmt":"2016-12-10T20:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ctpres.org\/ctpressblog\/?p=439"},"modified":"2017-01-25T08:20:42","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T13:20:42","slug":"439","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ctpres.org\/ctpressblog\/2016\/12\/10\/439\/","title":{"rendered":"CTPress December 9, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you receive this church newsletter, we will be about half-way through advent. The countdown to Christmas is now measurable in days! Yikes! Before we know it, we will be sitting in Christmas worship with all the busyness of the season behind us, for the most part.<\/p>\n<p>This is a busy weekend in the life of Charles Town Presbyterian Church. Tomorrow, on Saturday, we are Christmas caroling. Everyone is invited to help us as we minister the sounds of the season to some of our shut-ins and older members. We will meet at the church parking lot at 6:30, carol at number of places, and then return to the manse for a kind of party. Guests are welcome to stay at the manse until 10:30. (Fair warning: If you have allergies, please be aware that there are pet cats at the manse.)<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, our annual Christmas Joy service will be held at 7:00 pm in the sanctuary. This annual worship service features wonderful music provided by our talented music ministry. Our bell and vocal choirs have been working for months under the direction of music director Jason Largent to prepare for this wonderful service. During the Christmas Joy service we will collect the Joy Offering, which is used to provide scholarships for ethnic and minority students, and to provide resources for retired ministers who need help funding extreme medical needs.<\/p>\n<p>Christmas Caroling and the Christmas Joy service are great activities and they are great opportunities to introduce friends to the great people and ministries of CTPC. I encourage you to extend an invitation to a friend or two.<\/p>\n<p>Blessings,<\/p>\n<p>Pastor John<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Christmas Joy Gift service entitled \u201cCarols and Songs of the British Isles&#8221; will be this Sunday evening,  at 7:00 pm. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctpres.org\/ctpressblog\/2016\/12\/10\/439\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":448,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ctpres.org\/ctpressblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Joy-Service-2-4.png?fit=972%2C1036&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ctpres.org\/ctpressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ctpres.org\/ctpressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ctpres.org\/ctpressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ctpres.org\/ctpressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ctpres.org\/ctpressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ctpres.org\/ctpressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":449,"href":"https:\/\/www.ctpres.org\/ctpressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions\/449"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ctpres.org\/ctpressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ctpres.org\/ctpressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ctpres.org\/ctpressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ctpres.org\/ctpressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}