{"id":306,"date":"2022-08-30T23:59:45","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T23:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.numberourdays.org\/?p=306"},"modified":"2022-12-27T18:15:24","modified_gmt":"2022-12-27T10:15:24","slug":"4-lessons-learned-in-nursing-home-ministry-by-ivan-mesa-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.minutegospel.com\/?p=306","title":{"rendered":"4 Lessons Learned in Nursing Home Ministry by Ivan Mesa (2013)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Many residents in nursing homes experience pronounced feelings of loneliness, frustration, uselessness, and pain. I\u2019m able to be a friend and engage them in conversation; I\u2019m able to rehearse the gospel to them while at the same time encourage them to serve in little ways, like praying for unbelievers around them. In turn, then, I witness faith in the midst of great trial, weakness, and loss. The blessing flows two ways: I\u2019m encouraged even as I try to encourage others [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/article\/4-lessons-learned-in-nursing-home-ministry\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&#8230;<\/a>]&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Many residents in nursing homes experience pronounced feelings of loneliness, frustration, uselessness, and pain. I\u2019m able to be a friend and engage them in conversation; I\u2019m able to rehearse the gospel to them while at the same time encourage them to serve in little ways, like praying for unbelievers around them. In turn, then, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[80,82],"tags":[81],"class_list":["post-306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-number-our-days","tag-numberourdays"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minutegospel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minutegospel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minutegospel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutegospel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutegospel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutegospel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8058,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutegospel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions\/8058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.minutegospel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutegospel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.minutegospel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}