{"id":767,"date":"2018-08-25T22:22:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-26T03:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slovakzionsynod.org\/sip\/?p=767"},"modified":"2018-08-26T14:35:46","modified_gmt":"2018-08-26T19:35:46","slug":"week-8-new-aspects-of-ministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/slovakzionsynod.org\/sip\/?p=767","title":{"rendered":"Week 8: New Aspects of Ministry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi! Here I am again.<\/p>\n<p>I hope you had a great week, because I did. I met a lot of nice people at the service on Sunday. Usually there are two of them here in East Pittsburgh, first traditional service and then contemporary, as I mentioned in my first blog entry. However, last week there was only one service, because we had a church picnic right after. Liturgy used at the Holy Trinity is completely different from the one used at Dr. Martin Luther, so I was a bit confused, but I&#8217;ll get used to it. <\/p>\n<p>Then I had almost two days off. On Monday Bruce and Beth took me to the Ohiopyle State Park. Nope, it&#8217;s not in Ohio, but southwestern Pennsylvania, almost at the border with West Virginia and Maryland. But it&#8217;s on the Ohio river, hence the name. Tuesday I was reading most of the day and then in the evening we had a service at the church, where I got to meet a few people I didn&#8217;t know before. Next days pastor Dave decided to show me a bit unpopular, but necessary kind of ministry- sorting Sunday school stuff, sound equipment and books. We of course did all the stuff together. Although I knew that being a pastor is definitely not only about preaching, this taught me that ministry is a really diverse thing.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, pastor started to teach me how to play guitar, he even lent me his own guitar to do so, so it&#8217;s possible that in a few weeks I&#8217;ll join Cory (the church deacon and a worship leader) in leading the worship. <\/p>\n<p>Other than that, we had a council meeting about the church finances and we did a hospital visit. I spent one of the evenings with Bruce, Beth and a few other members of the church, we went to a German restaurant for dinner and then they spent some time with us at the house. Today (Saturday, of course) was a day off, so we just did some shopping and I got a few photos of Pittsburgh at night. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m really happy to be here, it&#8217;s a very nice place with a very nice people. Although I miss the people at DML, I&#8217;m looking forward to the experiences I&#8217;ll have here! I&#8217;m sure that when I&#8217;ll get home, I will miss both congregations. <\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;m not going home yet, so see you next week!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi! Here I am again. I hope you had a great week, because I did. I met a lot of nice people at the service on Sunday. Usually there are two of them here in East Pittsburgh, first traditional service and then contemporary, as I mentioned in my first blog entry. However, last week there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americantime","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/slovakzionsynod.org\/sip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/slovakzionsynod.org\/sip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/slovakzionsynod.org\/sip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/slovakzionsynod.org\/sip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/slovakzionsynod.org\/sip\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=767"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/slovakzionsynod.org\/sip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":769,"href":"http:\/\/slovakzionsynod.org\/sip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767\/revisions\/769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/slovakzionsynod.org\/sip\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/slovakzionsynod.org\/sip\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/slovakzionsynod.org\/sip\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}