{"id":4014,"date":"2016-08-31T12:50:26","date_gmt":"2016-08-31T17:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/?p=4014"},"modified":"2016-09-02T10:09:49","modified_gmt":"2016-09-02T15:09:49","slug":"honoring-a-life-of-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/honoring-a-life-of-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Honoring a Life of Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/100_1248.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4016 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/100_1248-300x223.jpg\" alt=\"Chris and Preacher\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/100_1248-300x223.jpg 300w, http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/100_1248-768x570.jpg 768w, http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/100_1248-1024x760.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Four years have passed since the last time I attended camp meeting at Old Time Baptist Church.<\/em> Old Time has a special place in my heart; I graduated high school there, went on missions trips with the people, and made many wonderful memories. I thoroughly enjoyed the tent meeting this year but missed someone special. 3 months ago, Preacher, went to be with the Lord. He was greatly missed and honored during the week. I cried as I watched his memorial video and heard him sing, &#8220;Tiny Little Hands.&#8221;\u00a0 I had heard him sing it in person on a missions trip in St. Lucia and hearing him sing it again on the video was special. Preacher was a wonderful man of God. He&#8217;s the only guy I know who would give you a big hug and a kiss (on both cheeks.) :) <em><strong>I will never forget his love for people! His big heart reminds me of the Lord. Preacher would always reach out to those who were down and out and it remains a challenge to me not to push those people away. I am so thankful for this man&#8217;s life and testimony! He is missed by those who love him but what a wonderful testimony to leave behind.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four years have passed since the last time I attended camp meeting at Old Time Baptist Church. Old Time has a special place in my heart; I graduated high school there, went on missions trips with the people, and made many wonderful memories. I thoroughly enjoyed the tent meeting this year but missed someone special. 3 months ago, Preacher, went &hellip; <a class=\"meta-nav\" href=\"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/honoring-a-life-of-service\/\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[39],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4014"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4014"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4022,"href":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4014\/revisions\/4022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}