{"id":936,"date":"2015-07-17T09:25:29","date_gmt":"2015-07-17T18:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=936"},"modified":"2015-07-17T09:25:29","modified_gmt":"2015-07-17T18:25:29","slug":"july-17th-waiting-room-ministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=936","title":{"rendered":"July 17th &#8211; Waiting Room Ministry"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"shariff\" data-title=\"July 17th &#8211; Waiting Room Ministry\" data-info-url=\"http:\/\/ct.de\/-2467514\" data-backend-url=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/wp-content\/plugins\/shariff-sharing\/backend\/index.php\" data-temp=\"\/tmp\" data-ttl=\"60\" data-service=\"gftr\" data-services='[\"googleplus\",\"facebook\",\"twitter\",\"reddit\",\"info\"]' data-image=\"\" data-url=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=936\" data-lang=\"en\" data-theme=\"colored\" data-orientation=\"horizontal\"><\/div><p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/waiting-room.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-937\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/waiting-room.jpg\" alt=\"waiting room\" width=\"251\" height=\"187\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today I was attempting to find a specific family in the Same Day Surgery Waiting Room. \u00a0While I did not locate that family, two other families stopped me and asked me if I had time to help them. \u00a0Of course my answer was &#8220;Yes&#8221;. \u00a0Walking away from those two encounters was a reminder to me that opportunities for ministry come in both expected and unexpected situations. \u00a0I am glad I was ready to see and respond to the unexpected.<\/p>\n<p>Question for the day: How are you experiencing unexpected opportunities to serve others? \u00a0I hope you like the answers you find!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I was attempting to find a specific family in the Same Day Surgery Waiting Room. \u00a0While I did not locate that family, two other families stopped me and asked me if I had time to help them. \u00a0Of course my answer was &#8220;Yes&#8221;. \u00a0Walking away from those two encounters was a reminder to me &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=936\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">July 17th &#8211; Waiting Room Ministry<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=936"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":938,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936\/revisions\/938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}