{"id":38,"date":"2019-03-03T07:36:17","date_gmt":"2019-03-03T07:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cootamundra.unitingchurch.org.au\/wp\/?page_id=38"},"modified":"2019-03-03T07:40:05","modified_gmt":"2019-03-03T07:40:05","slug":"mission-statement","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cootamundra.unitingchurch.org.au\/wp\/?page_id=38","title":{"rendered":"Mission Statement"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Mission Statement <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>of the Cootamundra Congregation <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>of the Uniting Church of Australia<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The congregation exists:<\/p>\n<p>To be an open fellowship of people who meet together regularly to hear and reflect on God&#8217;s word.<\/p>\n<p>To celebrate the sacraments,<\/p>\n<p>To care for one another and build each other up in love.<\/p>\n<p>To develop ways of helping its members know their Bible and the faith to which they have been called without seeking to impose on others any one set of beliefs.<\/p>\n<p>To encourage each member to develop his or her own gifts for ministry as well as helping others develop their gifts for ministry so that all of us can share in witness and service to the world through participation in the mission of Christ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mission Statement of the Cootamundra Congregation of the Uniting Church of Australia The congregation exists: To be an open fellowship of people who meet together regularly to hear and reflect on God&#8217;s word. To celebrate the sacraments, To care for one another and build each other up in love. To develop ways of helping its &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cootamundra.unitingchurch.org.au\/wp\/?page_id=38\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mission Statement<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":30,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cootamundra.unitingchurch.org.au\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cootamundra.unitingchurch.org.au\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cootamundra.unitingchurch.org.au\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cootamundra.unitingchurch.org.au\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cootamundra.unitingchurch.org.au\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cootamundra.unitingchurch.org.au\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40,"href":"https:\/\/cootamundra.unitingchurch.org.au\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38\/revisions\/40"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cootamundra.unitingchurch.org.au\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cootamundra.unitingchurch.org.au\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}