{"id":708,"date":"2013-05-22T19:35:08","date_gmt":"2013-05-22T17:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/?p=708"},"modified":"2013-06-03T13:00:50","modified_gmt":"2013-06-03T11:00:50","slug":"painting-the-church-red","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/05\/painting-the-church-red\/","title":{"rendered":"Painting the church red"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/CHurchred.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload size-medium wp-image-725 \" alt=\"CHurchred\" src=\"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/CHurchred-300x294.jpg\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/CHurchred-300x294.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"294\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27300%27%20height%3D%27294%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20300%20294%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27300%27%20height%3D%27294%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/CHurchred-210x205.jpg 210w, https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/CHurchred-300x294.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/CHurchred-1024x1003.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/CHurchred.jpg 1727w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>In celebration of our very special Pentecost weekend \u00a0Simon arranged with his Rotary colleague, Jan Blenkinsop, to turn Christ Church red for Pentecost evening \u00a0Sunday 19th May.<\/div>\n<div>Jan put gel sheets over our floodlights which produced a red result representing the fire of the Holy Spirit.\u00a0When this project was planned a few weeks ago, the hopes were that we would celebrate the Swindon Town promotion at Wembley. But sadly this was\u00a0not to be. Whereas the gift of the Holy Spirit is guaranteed , sports results are not. It&#8217;s the presence of your Spirit, Lord,\u00a0we need\u00a0&#8211; the moving of the Spirit Lord, we pray, across this town.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Thanks Simon<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Remember you can always see who is being remembered by the floodlights on our church by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/flood.php\">visiting the Floodlight page on our website<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In celebration of our very special Pentecost weekend \u00a0Simon arranged with his Rotary colleague, Jan Blenkinsop, to turn Christ Church red for Pentecost evening \u00a0Sunday 19th May. Jan put gel sheets over our floodlights which produced a red result representing the fire of the Holy Spirit.\u00a0When this project was planned a few weeks ago, the hopes were that we would celebrate the Swindon Town promotion at Wembley. But sadly this was\u00a0not to be. Whereas the gift of the Holy Spirit is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708","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=708"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":752,"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708\/revisions\/752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}