{"id":8942,"date":"2021-06-24T22:47:36","date_gmt":"2021-06-25T05:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mem-umc.org\/mem-umc\/?p=8942"},"modified":"2024-08-16T12:08:05","modified_gmt":"2024-08-16T19:08:05","slug":"welcome-rev-vathanak-heang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mem-umc.org\/mem-umc\/welcome-rev-vathanak-heang","title":{"rendered":"Welcome Rev. Vathanak Heang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mem-umc.org\/mem-umc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/heangvathanat.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-8943 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mem-umc.org\/mem-umc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/heangvathanat.jpg?resize=129%2C194&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"129\" height=\"194\" \/> <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mem-umc.org\/mem-umc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/HeangFamily.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9107 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mem-umc.org\/mem-umc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/HeangFamily.jpg?resize=300%2C194&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mem-umc.org\/mem-umc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/HeangFamily.jpg?resize=300%2C194&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mem-umc.org\/mem-umc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/HeangFamily.jpg?resize=1024%2C661&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mem-umc.org\/mem-umc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/HeangFamily.jpg?resize=768%2C495&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mem-umc.org\/mem-umc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/HeangFamily.jpg?resize=1536%2C991&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mem-umc.org\/mem-umc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/HeangFamily.jpg?w=2048&amp;ssl=1 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\">A warm welcome to Rev. <abbr class='c2c-text-hover' title='pronounce: w\u00e4t\u2019-t\u00e4-n\u00e4k'>Vathanak<\/abbr> Heang!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>We are excited to announce that Pastor Heang has been assigned to <abbr class='c2c-text-hover' title='Usually refers to Memorial United Methodist Church of Clovis, CA.'>Memorial<\/abbr> from <a href=\"https:\/\/santaclaraumc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Santa Clara United Methodist Church<\/a> beginning July 1, 2021.\u00a0 He will be staying in the Parsonage with his wife Ivana and children.\u00a0 Many positive comments about Pastor Heang have already been heard by people who know or have met him.<\/p>\n<p>Pastor <abbr class='c2c-text-hover' title='pronounce: w\u00e4t\u2019-t\u00e4-n\u00e4k'>Vathanak<\/abbr> (w\u00e4t&#8217;-t\u00e4-n\u00e4) was born in 1981 and grew up in a lower middle class (poor) family in Cambodia.\u00a0 He became a Christian on June 15th, 2000 and \u00a0on December 31st, 2007 he arrived in the US for seminary at Bethel College, Indiana.\u00a0 \u00a0There he earned a Masters of Ministries and Masters of Theological Studies. He met his wife in seminary and was married on Sept 10, 2011. They now have three wonderful boys.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">Last updated: August 16, 2024 at 12:08 pm<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A warm welcome to Rev. <abbr class='c2c-text-hover' title='pronounce: w\u00e4t\u2019-t\u00e4-n\u00e4k'>Vathanak<\/abbr> Heang! We are excited to announce that Pastor Heang has been assigned to <abbr class='c2c-text-hover' title='Usually refers to Memorial United Methodist Church of Clovis, CA.'>Memorial<\/abbr> from Santa Clara United Methodist Church beginning July 1, 2021.\u00a0 He will be staying in the Parsonage with his wife Ivana and children.\u00a0 Many positive comments about Pastor Heang have already been heard by people [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,44],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8942","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-what-happened-event-over","7":"category-announcements","8":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-29 23:08:53","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mem-umc.org\/mem-umc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mem-umc.org\/mem-umc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mem-umc.org\/mem-umc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mem-umc.org\/mem-umc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mem-umc.org\/mem-umc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mem-umc.org\/mem-umc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mem-umc.org\/mem-umc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mem-umc.org\/mem-umc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mem-umc.org\/mem-umc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}