{"id":15285,"date":"2012-10-28T17:55:48","date_gmt":"2012-10-28T23:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=15285"},"modified":"2012-10-28T17:55:49","modified_gmt":"2012-10-28T23:55:49","slug":"oldest-church-to-stay-open-for-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2012\/10\/oldest-church-to-stay-open-for-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Oldest Church to Stay<br> Open for Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/oldest-church-to-stay-open-for-now\/1st-community-congregational-church\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-15286\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15286\" title=\"1st community congregational church\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/1st-community-congregational-church-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/1st-community-congregational-church-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/1st-community-congregational-church.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The oldest church in Lehigh Acres\u00a0First Community Congregational Church<\/p>\n<p>has been saved from closing its doors, for now.<\/p>\n<p>Pastor Deborah Frysinger says her church is one-of-a kind.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everywhere you look there is history, this is the first church in Lehigh Acres,&#8221; Frysinger said.<\/p>\n<p>But things are looking up.<\/p>\n<p>Six months ago the members voted to sell the building.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But God has blessed us, he truly has,&#8221; Frysinger added.<\/p>\n<p>Now, they&#8217;ve decided not to do that, and instead will fight to keep the doors open.<\/p>\n<p>Church members say Pastor Deb&#8217;s new vision for the church has brought new life into this house of worship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The oldest church in Lehigh Acres\u00a0First Community Congregational Church has been saved from closing its doors, for now. Pastor Deborah Frysinger says her church is one-of-a kind. &#8220;Everywhere you look&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15285"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}