{"id":49263,"date":"2015-08-27T20:54:15","date_gmt":"2015-08-28T00:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/?p=49263"},"modified":"2015-08-27T20:54:15","modified_gmt":"2015-08-28T00:54:15","slug":"church-48","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/church-48\/","title":{"rendered":"Lowe UMC celebrates 125th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/methodisth.jpg\" alt=\"methodisth\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-49266\" \/>August 30<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Lowe United Methodist Church is celebrating 125 years in ministry on Sunday, August 30, 2015 at 11:00 am.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/miserybay.usanethosting.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/methodist.jpg\" alt=\"methodist\" width=\"133\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-49267\" \/>Bishop Deborah Lieder-Kiesey, the United Methodist Bishop for the State of Michigan, will be speaking; and special music will be provided from the Lowe Choir and the Findlay Family.<\/p>\n<p>The annual Ice Cream Social is from 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm on Sunday as well.<\/p>\n<p>The 125 year celebration coincides with the recent remodel that the church has undergone.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are so excited to have an entrance accessible for all people, new offices, a social hall and kitchen, and we welcome parishioners and community members to use the social hall for gatherings and events,&#8221; explains Pastor Kathy Leydorf-Keck.<\/p>\n<p>An open-house on Saturday, August 29th from 1:00 pm- 4:00 pm at Lowe will take place so that everyone can see all of the changes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The new addition was a team effort, from the planning process, to the design, and materials selection, a big thank you goes out to the entire Building Committee,&#8221; adds Trustee Chair and Project Manager, Matthew Upton.<\/p>\n<p>Lowe United Methodist Church is part of a two-point charge with Maple Rapids United Methodist Church. Services take place at Lowe on Sunday at 11:00 am and at Maple Rapids at 9:00 am. Anyone is welcome to attend, and both churches offer children&#8217;s church and a nursery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 30<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stjindy.com\/archive1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}