{"id":140,"date":"2019-08-30T23:13:55","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T23:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stjohnsvernon.ca\/?page_id=140"},"modified":"2026-09-15T16:34:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T00:34:33","slug":"pastors-welcome","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.stjohnsvernon.ca\/index.php\/pastors-welcome\/","title":{"rendered":"Pastor&#8217;s Welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<h1><strong>Welcome to St. John\u2019s Vernon!<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>I\u2019m glad you found us.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nSt. John\u2019s is a community of ordinary people gathered around an extraordinary gift: the love of God and the grace of Jesus Christ. We don\u2019t have everything figured out, and we don\u2019t expect you to either.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nWhether you\u2019ve been part of a church your whole life, have been away for years, aren\u2019t sure what you believe, or are simply curious, you are welcome here.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nMy hope is that St. John\u2019s will be a place where you can hear God\u2019s Word, follow in the way of Jesus, grow in a life of faith, build genuine relationships, and discover what&#8217;s most important in life.\n<\/p>\n<p>I look forward to meeting you.  Feel free to send me a message!<br \/>\n<br \/>\nEmail:  <u>pastor@stjohnsvernon.ca<\/u><\/p>\n<p><i>Pastor Lee Loveridge<\/i><br \/>\n\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to St. John\u2019s Vernon! I\u2019m glad you found us. St. John\u2019s is a community of ordinary people gathered around an extraordinary gift: the love of God and the grace of Jesus Christ. We don\u2019t have everything figured out, and we don\u2019t expect you to either. Whether you\u2019ve been part of a church your whole &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stjohnsvernon.ca\/index.php\/pastors-welcome\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pastor&#8217;s Welcome&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-140","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stjohnsvernon.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stjohnsvernon.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stjohnsvernon.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stjohnsvernon.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stjohnsvernon.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.stjohnsvernon.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1868,"href":"https:\/\/www.stjohnsvernon.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/140\/revisions\/1868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stjohnsvernon.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}