{"id":123,"date":"2007-08-25T21:45:52","date_gmt":"2007-08-26T02:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/2007\/08\/25\/i-am-now-a-stephen-ministry-in-training-to-be"},"modified":"2007-08-25T21:45:52","modified_gmt":"2007-08-26T02:45:52","slug":"i-am-now-a-stephen-ministry-in-training-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/2007\/08\/25\/i-am-now-a-stephen-ministry-in-training-to-be\/","title":{"rendered":"I am now a Stephen Ministry in training to be!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Stephen Ministry training coordinator from my church left me a message on Wednesday telling me I&#8217;d been accepted into the program and asking me officially if I wanted to join.  She said she was hoping I&#8217;d reply with a &#8220;resounding yes,&#8221; so the next day I did. \ud83d\ude42 I had to leave a message for her, but I made sure to say that my yes was a resounding one. \ud83d\ude09  The training starts next month and goes till April, and then I guess I&#8217;ll start meeting with whoever they assign to me who needs help.<\/p>\n<p>Ah, now maybe I&#8217;ll feel like I&#8217;m doing something with my life.  I feel like I&#8217;m naturally suited for this kind of ministry, since I&#8217;m often in this type of reflective listening mode with my friends.  I&#8217;m looking forward to honing my skills during the training.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Stephen Ministry training coordinator from my church left me a message on Wednesday telling me I&#8217;d been accepted into the program and asking me officially if I wanted to join. She said she was hoping I&#8217;d reply with a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/2007\/08\/25\/i-am-now-a-stephen-ministry-in-training-to-be\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}