{"id":1757,"date":"2019-03-21T12:46:53","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T12:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.risen.org.uk\/?p=1757"},"modified":"2019-03-21T14:07:34","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T14:07:34","slug":"blog-march-21st-charlottes-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/?p=1757","title":{"rendered":"Blog March 21st \u201cCharlotte&#8217;s Story\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[subscribe2]<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 625px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-1757-1\" width=\"625\" height=\"417\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Charlottes-Story-1.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Charlottes-Story-1.mp4\">http:\/\/www.risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Charlottes-Story-1.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1757-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/03-I-Sing-This-Song-Of-Love-For-You-1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/03-I-Sing-This-Song-Of-Love-For-You-1.mp3\">http:\/\/www.risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/03-I-Sing-This-Song-Of-Love-For-You-1.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>I Sing This Song Of Love For You featuring Lucy Stimpson &#8211; Maynard from the album &#8221; I Look Up To The Heavens&#8221; recorded and produced by John Hodgkinson<\/p>\n<p>So on Saturday I had the pleasure of attending the wedding of Sarah and Richard at Holy Rood church.\u00a0 Sarah and Richard had attended an Alpha course <u><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alpha_course%20%0d\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alpha_course<\/a><\/u> that I had helped with.<\/p>\n<p>Understandably there were many guests there that I did know including a couple right in front of me with their lovely young daughter.\u00a0 I noticed that the young woman was singing along to all the worship songs and so at a convenient moment I asked her how she knew them.\u00a0 She told me her name was Charlotte and that she had been a Christian for two years and that she went to Testwood Baptist Church. She and her husband work with Sarah and Richard and it was they who had invited them to take part in an Alpha course.\u00a0 There was no course available at the time at Testwood Baptist and so Sarah and Richard came to Holy Rood instead.<\/p>\n<p>As we were chatting (actually it was during the signing of the register) another Holy Rood member reached out to Charlotte saying how much she had enjoyed her testimony.\u00a0 This prompted me ask \u201cWhat testimony\u201d?\u00a0 Charlotte then gave me the link. Of course I reciprocated by giving her this one <a href=\"http:\/\/risenthemusical.com\/\">http:\/\/risenthemusical.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>When I opened the Testwood Baptist church link I was so impressed with\u00a0 Charlotte\u2019 Story and the way that it was presented \u00a0that I just had to share it. I am not sure if it is classed as poetry or spoken word but whatever it is, it is brilliant. Please have a listen.<\/p>\n<p>Quote of the week:<\/p>\n<p>Keep your fears to yourself but share your courage with others.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Louis Stevenson<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[subscribe2] I Sing This Song Of Love For You featuring Lucy Stimpson &#8211; Maynard from the album &#8221; I Look Up To The Heavens&#8221; recorded and produced by John Hodgkinson So on Saturday I had the pleasure of attending the wedding of Sarah and Richard at Holy Rood church.\u00a0 Sarah and Richard had attended an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ken-shearsmiths-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1757"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1763,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1757\/revisions\/1763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}