{"id":110,"date":"2017-09-25T07:00:33","date_gmt":"2017-09-25T07:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/demo.hummingbirdthemes.com\/hb-charity-pro\/?page_id=6"},"modified":"2019-03-02T16:04:08","modified_gmt":"2019-03-02T16:04:08","slug":"home-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/home-2\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/02\/pastoral-response-to-gc2019\/\">Pastoral Response to #GC2019<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>Reconciling congregation &#8211; All persons are recipients of God&#8217;s love and grace; God intends the church to be a community which embodies love, grace and justice for all people as a sign of God&#8217;s covenant. We, therefore, will continue to seek and welcome persons of any age, gender, race, ethnic background, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability as full participants in our community of faith.<\/p>\n<p>We are a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stephenministries.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" type=\"1\">Stephen Ministry Congregation<\/a> &#8211; Stephen Ministry is confidential, one-on-one caring by trained lay persons for those experiencing a serious life transition.<\/p>\n<p>We are a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.umcgiving.org\/ministry-articles\/peace-with-justice-sunday\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" type=\"1\">Justice-Seeking Congregation<\/a> &#8211; We work in covenant with the Methodist Federation for Social Action to be the inclusive, anti-racist\/anti-oppressive, justice seeking, risk-taking Body of Christ.<\/p>\n<p><strong>We are a Peace with Justice Covenant Congregation<\/strong> &#8211; As followers in Jesus\u2019 footsteps, we believe that a ministry of peace and justice is a way to witness to the whole gospel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastoral Response to #GC2019 Reconciling congregation &#8211; All persons are recipients of God&#8217;s love and grace; God intends the church &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/home-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">About Us<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-110","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":621,"href":"https:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/110\/revisions\/621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fumcschenectady.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}