{"id":116,"date":"2002-11-27T11:51:04","date_gmt":"2002-11-27T19:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/archives\/2002\/11\/27\/just-a-quick-update\/"},"modified":"2002-11-27T11:51:04","modified_gmt":"2002-11-27T19:51:04","slug":"just-a-quick-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2002\/11\/27\/just-a-quick-update","title":{"rendered":"Just a Quick Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On a personal note, the last few weeks have been a great exposure to the diversity of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.agncn.org\/\">Assemblies of God here in Nor Cal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Two Sundays ago I had the opportunity to talk to people about our ministry at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fccchurch.com\/\">Family Community Church<\/a> in San Jose. FCC is a very contemporary church reaching young adults and professionals by the droves. They\u2019ve added over 700 in weekly attendance over the last two months.<\/p>\n<p>That afternoon, I was invited to preach in a Fijian church (First Fijian Assembly of God) that meets here in Palo Alto. It was great\u2013they\u2019re a wonderful church! We were especially honored by their gifts of Fijian leis to us. Interestingly enough, they make leis out of dyed tree bark in Fiji. Very&nbsp;nice.<\/p>\n<p>Last Sunday I was able to share at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.japantownsanjose.org\/religion1.html\">Oriential Christian Center<\/a> (a Chinese church) that meets down in San Jose. It was the first time I\u2019ve ever preached with an interpreter. I kind of like&nbsp;it!<\/p>\n<p>And to show you how connected the Body of Christ is, one of the people I talked to at FCC gave my website to a friend of his who works at Stanford. He contacted me and we had lunch yesterday. While talking, he mentioned that he had a Fijian friend he was trying to minister to, and I was able to connect him with the Fijian church I preached at!<\/p>\n<p>How wild\u2026 God has got a way of hooking things up. He\u2019s definitely got a systems perspective!<\/p>\n<p>By the way, we\u2019ve been experiencing great favor in our attempts to schedule services and connect with pastors. Right now we\u2019re preaching in a different church every week through March, and we\u2019ve got tons of 1\u20131 meetings planned.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, we\u2019re already at the 70% mark of our mandated monthly support! It looks like we\u2019ll be able to go full-time on campus sometime this academic year. Yippee!<\/p>\n<p>Also, it looks like we\u2019re going to have around 30 people crammed into our apartment for a Thanksgiving lunch tomorrow\u2013almost all of them Stanford students!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just an update on what\u2019s been going on in our weekend ministry\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-1S","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}