{"id":2252,"date":"2026-07-16T01:07:49","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T01:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/?p=2252"},"modified":"2026-07-16T01:21:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T01:21:47","slug":"welcoming-summer-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/welcoming-summer-groups\/","title":{"rendered":"The Blessing of Summer Visitors"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2252\" class=\"elementor elementor-2252\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-baf4069 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"baf4069\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-017ad20 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"017ad20\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>This week, we have the blessing of a group from Apex Baptist Church in North Carolina serving alongside our team and partner churches. Before their visit, we emphasize to the team that they will be both blessed and a blessing, as we know the joy that comes from seeing Christ\u2019s Church at work around the globe is only heightened by serving alongside one another to reach the lost and strengthen the Church.<\/p><p>The Apostle Paul speaks of this in Romans 12:4-5: \u201cFor just as we have many members in one body and all the members do not have the same function, so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.\u201d<\/p><p>The late great theologian Warren Wiersbe commented on this passage: \u00a0<\/p><p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cThe basic idea is that each believer is a living part of Christ\u2019s body, and each one has a spiritual function to perform. Each believer has a gift (or gifts) to be used for the building up of the body and the perfecting of the other members of the body. In short, we belong to each other, we minister to each other, and we need each other.\u201d<\/p><p>Please join us in praying for a fruitful week of ministry.<\/p><p>And thank you once again for your prayer and financial partnership in equipping Christ\u2019s Church for greater biblical fidelity and ministry effectiveness!<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a81bb52 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"a81bb52\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-712ca88 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"712ca88\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"341\" src=\"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/apex-1024x341.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-2255\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/apex-1024x341.png 1024w, https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/apex-300x100.png 300w, https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/apex-768x256.png 768w, https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/apex-18x6.png 18w, https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/apex.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, we have the blessing of a group from Apex Baptist Church in North Carolina serving alongside our team and partner churches. Before their visit, we emphasize to the team that they will be both blessed and a blessing, as we know the joy that comes from seeing Christ\u2019s Church at work around the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2254,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ministry"],"acf":[],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/apex1-600x400.png","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/apex1-600x400.png","author_info":{"display_name":"Kent Husted","author_link":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/author\/khusted\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2252"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2269,"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2252\/revisions\/2269"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empoweringaction.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}