{"id":8598,"date":"2011-12-02T13:32:41","date_gmt":"2011-12-02T18:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/?p=8598"},"modified":"2013-05-31T18:38:01","modified_gmt":"2013-06-01T02:38:01","slug":"new-locations-on-grace-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/new-locations-on-grace-ground\/","title":{"rendered":"New Locations on Grace Ground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am part of a blogging community over at Grace Ground, and want to welcome two new contributors:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Kimberly Parker of Grace Ground\" src=\"http:\/\/www.graceground.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/101_9100-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"Kimberly Parker of Grace Ground\" width=\"150\" height=\"112\"  \/>The first is <a title=\"Kimberly Parker\" href=\"http:\/\/www.graceground.com\/canada\/simply-creative-writing\/\">Kimberly Parker<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In <a title=\"Click! at Grace Ground\" href=\"http:\/\/www.graceground.com\/canada\/simply-creative-writing\/click\/\">her opening post<\/a>, she writes this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When God teaches me a lesson, He often does so through the people I am closest with. Do you find that? In every encounter, with every face we meet during the day, we have the opportunity to see God at work \u2013 however, those we share our homes and workplaces with afford us the\u00a0most opportunity\u00a0because it is with those that we have the most influence.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Absolutely true! So often we go looking for people to help and serve across town or around the world when the people God really wants us to love are under the same roof or over the backyard fence.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Alastair McCollum of Grace Ground\" src=\"http:\/\/www.graceground.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/bar-300x377.jpg\" alt=\"Alastair McCollum of Grace Ground\" width=\"150\" height=\"186\"  \/>The second new contributor is\u00a0<a title=\"Alastair McCollum of Grace Ground\" href=\"http:\/\/www.graceground.com\/united-kingdom\/five-alive-mission-community\/\">Alastair McCollum<\/a>, who is a &#8220;Vicar in the Church of England.&#8221; What is a Vicar in the Church of England? You&#8217;ll have to head over to his first post to find out.<\/p>\n<p>Here is an excerpt from <a title=\"All About Mission and Community\" href=\"http:\/\/www.graceground.com\/united-kingdom\/five-alive-mission-community\/its-all-about-mission-and-community\/\">his first post<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When I applied for this position, as Vicar to the Five Alive Mission Community, three years ago it was partly because the Five Alive bit caught my attention, but mainly because of those last two words.\u00a0 Mission Community.\u00a0 This was and is a new term in the C of E, and was a name chosen to reflect the two purposes, as described in a report called \u2018Moving on in Mission and Ministry\u2019, of the Parish Churches of the Church of England.\u00a0 Those two purposes: Being in Mission and Being in Community.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Head on over to <a title=\"Grace Ground Blogging Community\" href=\"http:\/\/www.graceground.com\">Grace Ground<\/a> to read the rest of these posts, and welcome them to the blogging community!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kimberly Parker and Alastair McCollum are two of the newest contributors to the Grace Ground blogging community. 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