{"id":10,"date":"2020-05-06T22:45:09","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T22:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stephenperkinsfamily.org\/?page_id=10"},"modified":"2020-05-14T15:56:13","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T15:56:13","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stephenperkinsfamily.org\/?page_id=10","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stephenperkinsfamily.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_0191.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-124\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">\u00a0It is our hearts desire to see local churches started and strengthened across America and since 2008 that is what we have been doing.\u00a0 I believe that the only way to reach the world for Christ is through the local church.\u00a0 As of 2019 we have worked with 30 new church plants and 20 replants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Now more than ever we are in desperate need of strong churches that have a great desire to reach the lost with the glorious gospel of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.&nbsp; Our family has knocked on tens of thousands of doors in America and shared the gospel with thousands of people.&nbsp; America is the greatest mission field in all the world and now is the time to reach the lost.&nbsp; The fields in America are white unto harvest waiting to hear about Jesus.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; We have given our lives to travel the nation and help church planters and struggling churches.&nbsp; In Acts chapter 13 we find Paul and Barnabas going to plant churches and they had John also to their minister.&nbsp; Though the apostle Paul started many churches he never did it alone.&nbsp; Even in Acts chapter 18 when Paul is in Corinth alone there is no evidence of a New Testament church being started until Silas and Timotheus arrive and Paul is \u201cpressed in the spirit\u201d.&nbsp; Then he \u201ctestifies\u201d rather than \u201creasoned\u201d and finally turns to the Gentiles and the church of Corinth is started.&nbsp; The New Testament pattern for church planting includes more than one man and his family.&nbsp; What ever the need and where ever the need we will follow our Lord from sea to shining sea!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0It is our hearts desire to see local churches started and strengthened across America and since 2008 that is what we have been doing.\u00a0 I believe that the only way to reach the world for Christ is through the local church.\u00a0 As of 2019 we have worked with 30 new church plants and 20 replants. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Now more than ever we are in desperate need of strong churches that have a great desire to reach the lost with the glorious gospel of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.&nbsp; Our family has knocked on tens of thousands of doors in America and shared the gospel with thousands of people.&nbsp; America is the greatest mission field in all the world and now is the time to reach the lost.&nbsp; The fields in America are white unto harvest waiting to hear about Jesus.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; We have given our lives to travel the nation and help church planters and struggling churches.&nbsp; In Acts chapter 13 we find Paul and Barnabas going to plant churches and they had John also to their minister.&nbsp; Though the apostle Paul started many churches he never did it alone.&nbsp; Even in Acts chapter 18 when Paul is in Corinth alone there is no evidence of a New Testament church being started until Silas and Timotheus arrive and Paul is \u201cpressed in the spirit\u201d.&nbsp; Then he \u201ctestifies\u201d rather than \u201creasoned\u201d and finally turns to the Gentiles and the church of Corinth is started.&nbsp; The New Testament pattern for church planting includes more than one man and his family.&nbsp; What ever the need and where ever the need we will follow our Lord from sea to shining sea!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-10","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenperkinsfamily.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenperkinsfamily.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenperkinsfamily.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenperkinsfamily.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenperkinsfamily.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/stephenperkinsfamily.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197,"href":"https:\/\/stephenperkinsfamily.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10\/revisions\/197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenperkinsfamily.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}