{"id":1614,"date":"2016-09-06T19:31:29","date_gmt":"2016-09-06T19:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/?page_id=1595"},"modified":"2018-01-22T19:53:32","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T01:53:32","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>ABOUT YOU<\/h2>\n<p>It doesn\u2019t matter who you are, where you\u2019ve been, or what you\u2019ve done, you matter to God\u2014and that means you matter to us. &nbsp;God is all about New Beginnings and at LOAH we are not focused on where we have been but where we are going.<\/p>\n<h2>ABOUT US<\/h2>\n<p>Light On A Hill (LOAH) is about real people living real lives and worshiping together. &nbsp;We are all about being who we really are, making mistakes, forgiving, and helping each other.<\/p>\n<p>Tommy and Donna Sprinkle started the church with three other families in 2001 in a rented storefront space in downtown Grapeland. &nbsp;The church grew and in 2003 we purchased the building in which we were currently meeting. &nbsp;In October of 2004 another church in Grapeland closed down and gave their property and buildings to LOAH. &nbsp;These facilities were remodeled and in 2006 they became the new home of Light On A Hill Church.<\/p>\n<h3>Our Priorities<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Worship<\/strong> &#8211; Sundays are focused on worship. &nbsp;We experience God in our lives as we worship through song, prayer and the teaching of the Word.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fellowship<\/strong> &#8211; Wednesday are focused on fellowship, in fact we call our Wednesday evening gatherings <em>Fellowship First<\/em>. &nbsp;We share a potluck meal around the table. &nbsp;We do have a time of discussion but fellowship is the priority.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Serving<\/strong> &#8211; We have been blessed and we desire to share these blessings with the community around us.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Kids<\/strong> -They are not just our future tomorrow &#8211; they are our future today. &nbsp;Although we&nbsp;provide classes to teach our kids about Jesus, we also include them in worshiping and ministering in the church so they don&#8217;t just learn about the Bible but they live it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABOUT YOU It doesn\u2019t matter who you are, where you\u2019ve been, or what you\u2019ve done, you matter to God\u2014and that means you matter to us. &nbsp;God is all about New Beginnings and at LOAH we are not focused on where we have been but where we are going. ABOUT US Light On A Hill (LOAH) is about real people living real lives and worshiping together. &nbsp;We are all about being who we really are, making mistakes, forgiving, and helping each [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1908,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1614","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","ctfw-has-image"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1614"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2303,"href":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1614\/revisions\/2303"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/loah.org\/marsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}