{"id":305,"date":"2008-02-24T07:49:32","date_gmt":"2008-02-24T14:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/?p=305"},"modified":"2008-02-24T07:49:32","modified_gmt":"2008-02-24T14:49:32","slug":"circuit-visitation-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/?p=305","title":{"rendered":"Circuit visitation this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend, our circuit visitor, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lcms.org\/ca\/www\/locators\/nworkers\/w_detail.asp?W104073\" target=\"_blank\">Rev. John Hill<\/a>, is making his tri-annual visit.\u00a0 Yesterday he met with myself and Gwen for lunch, then a one-on-one meeting with me.\u00a0 Later in the afternoon, he met with the senior pastor and in the evening, he met with our Board of Elders.\u00a0 This morning, he will be joining us for worship at both services, then will be staying for a potluck welcoming new members, as well as his visit.\u00a0 This will give him an opportunity to meet and greet the congregation, talk to them as a whole briefly about the state of the Synod.\u00a0 If people would like to talk to him individually, he has set time aside following the potluck to meet with those members.<\/p>\n<p>I think that the <a href=\"http:\/\/wy.lcms.org\" target=\"_blank\">Wyoming District<\/a> is unusual in that our circuit visitors actually visit our congregations.\u00a0 It&#8217;s good for the pastors so we can address some issues we have, seek advice and support.\u00a0 It&#8217;s good for the congregation so that if they have issues which are afraid to bring up to the pastor (why, I don&#8217;t know.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not like we&#8217;re scary or anything).\u00a0 Maybe in this type of setting, they might be more open.\u00a0 It&#8217;s also good for the District as a whole so as to make sure that all things are going well in the congregation.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of congregation, I guess I should head to church now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend, our circuit visitor, Rev. John Hill, is making his tri-annual visit.\u00a0 Yesterday he met with myself and Gwen for lunch, then a one-on-one meeting with me.\u00a0 Later in the afternoon, he met with the senior pastor and in the evening, he met with our Board of Elders.\u00a0 This morning, he will be joining [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[180064,201427],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-circuit","category-lcms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305","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=305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revtucher.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}