{"id":2484,"date":"2016-08-19T13:45:48","date_gmt":"2016-08-19T13:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/discipleship\/?p=2484"},"modified":"2016-09-08T20:35:04","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T20:35:04","slug":"update-passion-connection-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/discipleship\/2016\/08\/19\/update-passion-connection-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Update on Louisiana Flooding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bishop Gordon Atwell, conference superintendent of Passion Connection (former Mid-South Conference), reports that Christian City Church in Denham Springs, Louisiana suffered severe flood damage due to several feet of water in the facility. As you can see from the pictures, work is underway to clean up and restore the church to its original condition.<\/p>\n<div class=\"module large-image-container caption image\">\n<table style=\"height: 109px;\" width=\"746\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" width=\"530\">\n<table style=\"height: 199px;\" width=\"535\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<div class=\"madmimi-image-container\" align=\"center\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cascade.madmimi.com\/promotion_images\/1389\/8871\/original\/IMG_3216.JPG?1471547890\" alt=\"IMG 3216\" width=\"164\" height=\"122\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"20\"><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<div class=\"madmimi-image-container\" align=\"center\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cascade.madmimi.com\/promotion_images\/1389\/8877\/original\/IMG_3214.JPG?1471547919\" alt=\"IMG 3214\" width=\"163\" height=\"122\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"20\"><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<div class=\"madmimi-image-container\" align=\"center\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cascade.madmimi.com\/promotion_images\/1389\/8878\/original\/IMG_3215.JPG?1471547935\" alt=\"IMG 3215\" width=\"163\" height=\"122\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"module divider\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"madmimi-image-container\" align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>IMPACT CHURCH FUNCTIONING AS DISTRIBUTION CENTER<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"module header\">\n<p align=\"left\">Bishop Gordon Atwell serves as conference superintendent for the Passion Connection Conference as well as senior pastor for Impact Church in Denham Springs, Louisiana. According to Atwell, thankfully, the church did not suffer any damage from the flooding. The church is being utilized for relief purposes, both as a distribution center for supplies as well as temporary housing. Through this morning, the church had housed 166 people and provided food for many displaced individuals.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cascade.madmimi.com\/promotion_images\/1389\/9104\/original\/IMG_3220-2.jpg?1471549372\" alt=\"IMG 3220-2\" width=\"530\" height=\"145\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">In addition to meals and cleanup, Passion Connection is also looking for volunteers to help with clean up in the surrounding area. If you or your congregation would like to form a team and provide assistance, please contact Bishop Atwell at 225.333.1020 or via email at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:GordonAtwell@aol.com\">GordonAtwell@aol.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cascade.madmimi.com\/promotion_images\/1389\/9156\/original\/IMG_3219-2.jpg?1471549645\" alt=\"IMG 3219-2\" width=\"190\" height=\"142\" \/>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cascade.madmimi.com\/promotion_images\/1389\/9157\/original\/IMG_3221-2.jpg?1471549671\" alt=\"IMG 3221-2\" width=\"320\" height=\"142\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"module header\">\u00a0We are currently accepting donations for the disaster areas throughout Louisiana. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/donations.iphc.org\/projects\/disaster-relief-usa\" >Click here<\/a><\/strong> to help with this need.<\/div>\n<div class=\"module header\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"module text\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"excerpt","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,446],"tags":[438,501,297,489,497,488],"class_list":{"0":"post-2484","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-general","8":"category-phpp","9":"tag-438","10":"tag-august","11":"tag-drusa","12":"tag-people-of-promise","13":"tag-phpp","14":"tag-place-of-hope","15":"entry"},"title_es":"","content_es":"","author_name":"","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/discipleship\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/08\/IMG_3213-e1471614321867.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4T9u2-E4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/discipleship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/discipleship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/discipleship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/discipleship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/discipleship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/discipleship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/discipleship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/discipleship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/discipleship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/discipleship\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}