{"id":4999,"date":"2011-10-30T18:49:28","date_gmt":"2011-10-30T17:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=4999"},"modified":"2011-10-30T18:49:28","modified_gmt":"2011-10-30T17:49:28","slug":"vineyard-on-the-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=4999","title":{"rendered":"Vineyard on the Green"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/11103006.jpg\" alt=\"Vineyard on the Green\" \/><br \/>\nOn Saturday the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abingdonvineyard.org.uk\/\">Abingdon Vineyard Church<\/a> tried something different at Reynolds Way shops. They erected a tent to invite people to come in for a cup of tea, or a chat. <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag11\/outsideview.jpg\" alt=\"Vineyard on the Green\" \/><br \/>\nThe Vineyard Church meet at Preston Road Community Centre every Sunday. You can arrive any time between 10:30 and 11 when they are sharing coffee and cakes &#8211; or fruit as a healthy option.<\/p>\n<p>It is quite informal. There follows a time of modern worship songs &#8211; which seem quite calm and peaceful, and those you don&#8217;t know are quite easy to pick up by the 2nd or 3rd rendition. Then somebody shares a message, and finally people can either pray in groups, or just chat and share stories, or watch a video. Or that is what happened today. This was the 5th Sunday in the month and it sounds like the 1st-3rd Sundays are more planned, and the 4th even more informal. They want to make it welcoming to people who are not used to church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday the Abingdon Vineyard Church tried something different at Reynolds Way shops. They erected a tent to invite people to come in for a cup of tea, or a chat. The Vineyard Church meet at Preston Road Community Centre every Sunday. You can arrive any time between 10:30 and 11 when they are sharing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}