{"id":71,"date":"2007-02-22T03:32:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-22T03:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wnac.org\/blog\/?p=71"},"modified":"2007-02-22T03:32:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-22T03:32:00","slug":"daily-devotional-wednesday-2-21-07","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/?p=71","title":{"rendered":"Daily Devotional Wednesday 2-21-07"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial;\"><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">A True Ministry<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial;\">John 11:19 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153<span style=\"font-style:italic;\">And many of the Jews came to Martha and Mary to comfort them concerning their brother.<\/span>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial;\">Recently I cooked food for a family who lost their loved one.<span>  <\/span>This is real ministry\u00e2\u20ac\u201dto offer ourselves to those in grief and mourning.<span>  <\/span>Some<span>  <\/span>church women\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s groups have a wonderful plan in times of death.<span>  <\/span>One such WAC group designates a certain food dish to each woman. Others pick up and deliver the food to the home of the family, serving them and keeping the kitchen in order.<span>  <\/span>Sometimes all a person needs is for us to just be there.<span>  <\/span>Our presence means more than eloquent words.<span>  <\/span>I love being a part of this ministry, even if it is a cake or BBQ chicken or a card or letter.<span>  <\/span>It says so much about the way we want to help ease the grief these folks are going through.<span>  <\/span>Why not coordinate this wonderful ministry at your next WAC meeting?<span>  <\/span>If you already have such a ministry, please know that you mean so much to those you serve.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial;\">LaCrecia McFaddin<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family:Arial;\">Tennessee<\/span><span style=\"font-family:Arial;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">PRAYER CORNER<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Ken Akers, Masters Men director, would appreciate our prayers.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A True Ministry John 11:19 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153And many of the Jews came to Martha and Mary to comfort them concerning their brother.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Recently I cooked food for a family who lost their loved one. This is real ministry\u00e2\u20ac\u201dto offer ourselves to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/?p=71\">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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-devotional"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnac.org\/twg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}