{"id":43045,"date":"2019-11-07T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T21:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/kent-lutheran-church-celebrates-130-years-in-the-community-2\/"},"modified":"2019-11-07T13:30:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T21:30:00","slug":"kent-lutheran-church-celebrates-130-years-in-the-community-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/kent-lutheran-church-celebrates-130-years-in-the-community-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent Lutheran Church celebrates 130 years in the community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kent Lutheran Church marked its 130th anniversary in the community last Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Festivities included food, fellowship and a program that celebrated the church&rsquo;s long history in the heart of the city.<\/p>\n<p>A near-capacity crowd of church members and others from the community enjoyed pork sliders and tomatoes and cheese skewers before an hour-long program in the sanctuary that looked back at the church&rsquo;s 130 years in the downtown area.<\/p>\n<p>Individual speeches and &#0010;a parody of the song, &ldquo;Downtown,&rdquo; preceded an event highlight with the opening of a 50-year time capsule. The sealed tin box, placed behind a copper ID plaque, was stolen some three years ago but was returned after being found in a nearby homeless &#0010;camp.<\/p>\n<p>The evening also celebrated Pastor Jane Prestbye&rsquo;s 20-year tenure with an unexpected standing ovation.<\/p>\n<p>The next major milestone for Kent Lutheran will be the dedication of its newly refurbished and installed Hutchings\/Plaisted, Opus 78 Pipe Organ with some 70 ranks with 4,200 pipes. The million-dollar project is 75 percent complete, church officials said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kent Lutheran Church marked its 130th anniversary in the community last Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":43046,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-43045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43045"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43045"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=43045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}