{"id":1960,"date":"2020-11-01T12:04:29","date_gmt":"2020-11-01T19:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ibimi.com\/?p=1960"},"modified":"2020-11-01T14:31:04","modified_gmt":"2020-11-01T21:31:04","slug":"deford-october-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ibimi.com\/?p=1960","title":{"rendered":"DeFord October 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> Sept\/Oct Prayer Letter <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the Lord.&#8221; Psalm 122:1 <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are so please to report that after seven months, we were able to\nbegin in-person services Sunday, October 11. We are currently using\nZoom to broadcast the services as well. Sunday mornings we are seeing\nabout 50 folks attending in-person split sessions with several other\ndevices tuning in online. Since beginning in-person services, we\u2019ve also\nhad mens\u2019 and ladies\u2019 Bible studies. After a long Spring and Summer\nthere is enthusiasm and optimism going forward. Praise the Lord!\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>New Family Addition!\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tuesday, Sept 22 we welcomed David \u201cRay\u201d De Ford into the world. Six\nmonths after the Lord took Dad home to Glory, He gave our son,\nMicah, and his wife, Rachael, their first born son whom they named\nafter Dad. Sherry was blessed to be in North Dakota two weeks for the\nbirth.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After she returned home, Steve traveled to Washington state to be in a\nmissions conference with the Orting Community Baptist Church.\nIntroducing a new congregation to Hualapai Baptist Church and the\nministry of IBIMI was another Fall high light.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For God\u2019s Glory,<br>\nThe Steve De Ford family\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sept\/Oct Prayer Letter &#8220;I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the Lord.&#8221; Psalm 122:1 We are so please to report that after seven months, we were able to begin in-person services Sunday, October 11. We are currently using Zoom to broadcast the services as well. Sunday mornings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"hide_page_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,7,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-62","category-missionary-letters","category-steve-sherry-deford"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibimi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibimi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibimi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibimi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibimi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ibimi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1961,"href":"https:\/\/ibimi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960\/revisions\/1961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ibimi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibimi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ibimi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}