{"id":1785,"date":"2011-04-19T23:41:44","date_gmt":"2011-04-20T05:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/?p=1785"},"modified":"2011-04-19T23:41:44","modified_gmt":"2011-04-20T05:41:44","slug":"a-surreal-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/?p=1785","title":{"rendered":"A Surreal Moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight marked a surreal night for us. We had over Pastor Firminhac and family for our &#8220;last supper&#8221; before they leave for Torrington. Sunday was his last Sunday at Trinity. Following services, a farewell potluck reception was held in his honor. It was a record turnout to say the least. Tables and chairs had to be brought up multiple times because of the lack of seating. <\/p>\n<p>We spent two hours together enjoying each others company. Wesley got to play with their three kids one last time and Bryce had no shortage of people to hold him.<\/p>\n<p>Over the last almost six years, the one thing I regret the most is not doing this more often. It&#8217;s not a usual thing to have two pastors in a church, so having this kind of fellowship is a true blessing. <\/p>\n<p>As they prepare to leave Gillette either tomorrow or Thursday, we wish them God&#8217;s safety on their travels and blessings as he begins his ministry as the pastor of Our Savior Lutheran in Torrington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight marked a surreal night for us. We had over Pastor Firminhac and family for our &#8220;last supper&#8221; before they leave for Torrington. Sunday was his last Sunday at Trinity. Following services, a farewell potluck reception was held in his honor. It was a record turnout to say the least. Tables and chairs had to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186537,182,145868,6443241],"tags":[101316,75975358,48579601],"class_list":["post-1785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clergy","category-current-affairs","category-lutheran","category-office-of-holy-ministry","tag-farewell","tag-office-of-holy-ministry","tag-postaday2011"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}