{"id":2978,"date":"2019-04-17T11:55:24","date_gmt":"2019-04-17T09:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2978"},"modified":"2019-05-18T10:57:06","modified_gmt":"2019-05-18T08:57:06","slug":"forging-connections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/2019\/04\/forging-connections\/","title":{"rendered":"Forging Connections"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Forging Connections is a partnership between our town-wide Christian Organisations and the Church in Swindon to build relationship, serve each other well &amp; share the Gospel. We aim to meet and engage with Church leaders from throughout Swindon before hosting a \u2018Forging Connections\u2019 event for the wider church community, to;<br\/><br\/>\u2022 Raise the Profile and Awareness of our organisations to a wider range of churches<br\/>\u2022 Forge Relationships and Communication between us to work more closely together<br\/>\u2022 Seek new Volunteers to serve in our organisations and so grow our services<br\/>\u2022 Connect people in need of our services, through the support of the local church<br\/>\u2022 Develop our Services through our Christian connections to reach more people<br\/>\u2022 Create Pathways for people we serve, to find their way into the local church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"938\" height=\"684\" src=\"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Forging.jpg\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Forging.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"lazyload wp-image-2979\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27938%27%20height%3D%27684%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20938%20684%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27938%27%20height%3D%27684%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Forging-210x153.jpg 210w, https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Forging-300x219.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Forging-768x560.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Forging.jpg 938w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 938px) 100vw, 938px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-regular-font-size\"><strong>Forging Connections Event<\/strong><br\/>Thursday 9th May (19:00 &#8211; 21:30) The Trinity Centre (Gateway Church), Stonehill Green, Swindon, SN5 7AR<br\/>This will be a collaboration of our Organisations hosting a \u2018Market-Place Fayre\u2019, to give the whole church body an opportunity to meet us personally and find out all about our services. The event will encourage people to pray, volunteer and get involved with our organisations. All are welcome<br\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forging Connections is a partnership between our town-wide Christian Organisations and the Church in Swindon to build relationship, serve each other well &amp; share the Gospel. We aim to meet and engage with Church leaders from throughout Swindon before hosting a \u2018Forging Connections\u2019 event for the wider church community, to; \u2022 Raise the Profile and Awareness of our organisations to a wider range of churches\u2022 Forge Relationships and Communication between us to work more closely together\u2022 Seek new Volunteers to serve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mission-evangelism","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2980,"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2978\/revisions\/2980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}