{"id":838,"date":"2008-02-06T22:16:25","date_gmt":"2008-02-07T02:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/2008\/02\/06\/stewards-among-us\/"},"modified":"2008-02-08T23:57:12","modified_gmt":"2008-02-09T03:57:12","slug":"stewards-among-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/archives\/838","title":{"rendered":"Faithful stewards among us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new Salvation Army leaders, Chuck and Karin, are in town, so I met Chuck at the Advocate-Messenger for an introduction to the executive editor, a good friend of the local Corps. After that we met up with Karin, and the three of us had sandwiches at the deli on Fourth Street. I really like this young couple, recently arrived from Pittsburgh (not unlike most people with the Army, they\u2019ve lived many places). Given the bizarre circumstances which caused the departure of our previous Captains, they had only 24 hours to decide whether or not to move to Danville last month. Unbelievable. <\/p>\n<p>Earlier, while at the newspaper, we\u2019d talked about a welcome interview that was supposed to take place today\u2014before the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.disasternews.net\/news\/article.php?articleid=3607\">deadly storms struck in the middle of the night<\/a>. This morning they took off with the mobile canteen, headed for one of the disaster sites. What a way of life! I\u2019ve met many caring people in my journey so far, but these extraordinary people who call themselves Salvationists are the most selfless servants I\u2019ve encountered.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Blessed are the pure in heart;<br \/>\nfor they shall see God.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; \u2014Matthew 5:8<br \/>\n&nbsp; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new Salvation Army leaders, Chuck and Karin, are in town, so I met Chuck at the Advocate-Messenger for an introduction to the executive editor, a good friend of the local Corps. After that we met up with Karin, and the three of us had sandwiches at the deli on Fourth Street. I really like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,46,8,55,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}