{"id":2144,"date":"2015-12-08T21:43:09","date_gmt":"2015-12-08T21:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sandownmethodistchurch.org\/?page_id=2144"},"modified":"2017-01-06T17:20:19","modified_gmt":"2017-01-06T17:20:19","slug":"journey-to-the-stable","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.sandownmethodistchurch.org\/?page_id=2144","title":{"rendered":"Journey to the Stable 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><span><strong><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2149\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2149\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2149\" title=\"the beginning\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sandownmethodistchurch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/img_1168-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"The Beginning of the Journey\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sandownmethodistchurch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/img_1168-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sandownmethodistchurch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/img_1168-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2149\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Beginning of the Journey<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Friday 4th December to Monday 7th December 2015<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #ee113d; font-size: medium;\">Journey to the Stable<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #ee113d; font-size: medium;\">took place at Sandown Methodist Church from <\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong><span>Friday 4th December &#8211; until <\/span><strong>M<\/strong><\/strong><strong>onday 7th December \u00a02015 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em><strong><strong>where visitors found <\/strong> something to reflect on, something to do, and something to take away \u00a0from their journey &#8211; and l<\/strong><\/em><span style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;\">ight refreshments were served to help them on their way.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Over the four days we welcomed a good number of people who wanted to share in the &#8216;Journey to the Stable&#8217;, as well as those who needed to step over our threshold to find peace, a listening ear, or a moment of refreshment in this busy and hectic time of year. <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>We enjoyed pleasant company over cups of tea and coffee with those we already knew. <\/em><em>We welcomed those who came in as &#8216;strangers&#8217;, \u00a0shared some of their experiences and life-story, and left as friends. <\/em><em><em>And, at times, some of us even indulged in some <\/em><span style=\"text-align: left;\">deep and enlightening conversations. <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><span style=\"text-align: left;\">There was a chance to watch a short simple version of the Nativity on the screen, and &#8216;Christmas cards&#8217; to colour for the younger ones.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"text-align: left;\">Altogether a very worthwhile few days.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div id=\"attachment_2165\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2165\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2165 \" title=\"the stable\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sandownmethodistchurch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/img_1163-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Not quite journey's end !\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sandownmethodistchurch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/img_1163-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sandownmethodistchurch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/img_1163-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2165\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Not quite journey&#39;s end !<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday 4th December to Monday 7th December 2015 Journey to the Stable took place at Sandown Methodist Church from Friday 4th December &#8211; until Monday 7th December \u00a02015 where visitors found something to reflect on, something to do, and something to take away \u00a0from their journey &#8211; and light refreshments were served to help them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":2142,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2144","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sandownmethodistchurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sandownmethodistchurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sandownmethodistchurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sandownmethodistchurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sandownmethodistchurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2144"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"http:\/\/www.sandownmethodistchurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3214,"href":"http:\/\/www.sandownmethodistchurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2144\/revisions\/3214"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sandownmethodistchurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sandownmethodistchurch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}