{"id":210,"date":"2005-02-20T03:03:05","date_gmt":"2005-02-20T03:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ccgi.geraldyuen.plus.com\/?p=210"},"modified":"2007-02-28T23:15:16","modified_gmt":"2007-02-28T23:15:16","slug":"from-every-nationbefore-the-throne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/?p=210","title":{"rendered":"&#8230;from every nation&#8230;before the throne&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After spending the day recovering from the past week, my brother, his wife and myself headed down to Bristol for the evening. The reason for going west was a &#8216;Chinese evening&#8217; at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tbc.org.uk\/\">Totterdown Baptist Church<\/a>, organised primarily by my sister.<br \/>\nIt was an informal event, attended by those from the church, as well as people on the &#8216;fringe&#8217; &#8211; those who didn&#8217;t usually attend the church. Around the hall were various Chinese related objects, including a Chinese language Bible. Sometimes we forget that the Gospel isn&#8217;t just for those in the English speaking world, but for everyone, so this was a good reminder of the global nature of God&#8217;s purposes. There was a Chinese meal, with plentiful amounts of food &#8211; of which some of the overflow is now sitting in my fridge! Afterwards, were various competitions to see who could juggle\/spin plates\/hula best, although not all at the same time. A fun evening where people could get to know each other and where those outside the church could observe Christians in their natural environment, with maybe a glimpse of heaven.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After spending the day recovering from the past week, my brother, his wife and myself headed down to Bristol for the evening. The reason for going west was a &#8216;Chinese evening&#8217; at Totterdown Baptist Church, organised primarily by my sister. It was an informal event, attended by those from the church, as well as people&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more navbutton\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/?p=210\">Read More<i class=\"fa fa-angle-double-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geraldyuen.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}