{"id":714,"date":"2017-12-24T22:21:35","date_gmt":"2017-12-25T02:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/?p=714"},"modified":"2017-12-24T22:21:35","modified_gmt":"2017-12-25T02:21:35","slug":"209-candlelight-service-in-our-new-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/?p=714","title":{"rendered":"209. Candlelight Service in Our New Building"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always loved the Candlelight Service on Christmas Eve at Gateway Community Church.  We sing &#8220;Shine, Jesus, Shine&#8221; after letting the candlelight spread through the auditorium.  And we hold our candles high.  I didn&#8217;t use to think of that as a Christmas song!<\/p>\n<p>And this was our first year in our new building, so there were lots more people, and it was all the more beautiful.<\/p>\n<p>This year, we&#8217;re having an 11 pm service to prepare our hearts for Christmas, as well.  It makes for a memorable Christmas Eve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always loved the Candlelight Service on Christmas Eve at Gateway Community Church. We sing &#8220;Shine, Jesus, Shine&#8221; after letting the candlelight spread through the auditorium. And we hold our candles high. I didn&#8217;t use to think of that as a Christmas song! And this was our first year in our new building, so there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":715,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714\/revisions\/715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}