{"id":2407,"date":"2021-08-26T16:26:24","date_gmt":"2021-08-26T16:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/?p=2407"},"modified":"2021-08-26T16:26:24","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T16:26:24","slug":"st-pauls-mbc-welcomes-youth-back-to-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/26\/st-pauls-mbc-welcomes-youth-back-to-church\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Paul\u2019s MBC Welcomes Youth Back to Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2408\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_6577.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"261\" height=\"147\" \/>Sojourner\u2019s Truth Staff<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, August 21, St. Paul\u2019s Missionary Baptist Church brought their youthful members back to the church grounds for an afternoon of food and games, but also for some valuable life lessons.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey haven\u2019t been here in a year,\u201d said Rev. James Willis, Sr, pastor of St. Paul\u2019s, of his youthful flock of about 50. \u201cThis is to celebrate going back to school and coming to church again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2409 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/IMG_6572.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"261\" height=\"184\" \/>In addition to the food and games, JoJuan Armour of the Mayor\u2019s Gun Violence Task Force, stopped by to impart a lesson of non-violence and the Toledo Police Department Resource officer came to speak to the youth about safety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sojourner\u2019s Truth Staff On Saturday, August 21, St. Paul\u2019s Missionary Baptist Church brought their youthful members back to the church grounds for an afternoon of food and games, but also for some valuable life lessons. \u201cThey haven\u2019t been here in a year,\u201d said Rev. James Willis, Sr, pastor of St. Paul\u2019s, of his youthful flock [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,17],"tags":[],"wf_post_folders":[71],"class_list":["post-2407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headline","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2410,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2407\/revisions\/2410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2407"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=2407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}