{"id":9533,"date":"2021-12-07T19:26:15","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T03:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mem-umc.org\/mem-umc\/?p=9533"},"modified":"2021-12-07T19:26:43","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T03:26:43","slug":"9533-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mem-umc.org\/mem-umc\/9533-2","title":{"rendered":"Longest Night Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Longest Night Service\/Blue Christmas<br \/>\nDec 21, at 6pm<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mem-umc.org\/mem-umc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/longest-night-service.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1611\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mem-umc.org\/mem-umc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/longest-night-service.jpg?resize=300%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mem-umc.org\/mem-umc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/longest-night-service.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mem-umc.org\/mem-umc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/longest-night-service.jpg?w=432&amp;ssl=1 432w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000080;\"> In the midst of all the wonder, joy and celebration of Christmas,<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000080;\">with its carols, parties, decorating, baking, gift giving, and family<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000080;\">time, it&#8217;s easy for us to forget that in our own church there are<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000080;\">many for whom the idea of Christmas joy is not part of the season<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000080;\">this year.<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000080;\">You are invited to join our Longest Night Service on December 21st at 6pm to pay attention to the special needs of people who are &#8220;blue&#8221; or in pain at this time. This service happens on the winter solstice, just a few days before Christmas. It is a contemplative service<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000080;\">that recognizes the fact that people are in pain and blend it with the fact that Jesus came to<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; color: #000080;\"><strong>offer hope<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Longest Night Service\/Blue Christmas Dec 21, at 6pm In the midst of all the wonder, joy and celebration of Christmas, with its carols, parties, decorating, baking, gift giving, and family time, it&#8217;s easy for us to forget that in our own church there are many for whom the idea of Christmas joy is not part [&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":[44,28,7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9533","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-announcements","7":"category-christmas","8":"category-special-services","9":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-29 22:01:33","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\/9533","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=9533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mem-umc.org\/mem-umc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mem-umc.org\/mem-umc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mem-umc.org\/mem-umc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mem-umc.org\/mem-umc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}