{"id":176894,"date":"2024-03-14T03:36:42","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T08:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=176894"},"modified":"2024-03-14T03:36:43","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T08:36:43","slug":"good-friday-service-set-for-march-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2024\/03\/14\/good-friday-service-set-for-march-29\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Friday Service set for March 29"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A local tradition for over 70 years \u2013 the Van Wert Area Community-Wide Good Friday Service \u2013 will continue this Good Friday, March 29, at Promise Church, 1017 S. Shannon St. in Van Wert.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This community collaboration includes nine pastors representing 10 congregations. Area pastors will be participating in the service with scripture readings, prayers, hymns and the message, \u201cIt\u2019s Friday, But Sunday Is Comin\u2019\u201d delivered by Pastor Bill Watson from Van Wert\u2019s Pentecostal Way Church. Pastor Gary Ginter of Ohio City United Methodist Church will be offering a one-man monologue titled, \u201cThe Centurion\u2019s Song,\u201d along with singing \u201cThe Hammer,\u201d by Ray Boltz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Annette Hoverman will be at the piano for the prelude and then she will be joining Paul Hoverman, flugelhorn, and Pastor Christian Taylor of the United Methodist Church of Van Wert, vocalist with a beautiful arrangement of \u201cJesus Paid It All.\u201d The vocal ensemble, \u201cIn Spiritu\u201d, will be performing the much loved old hymns, \u201cNear the Cross\u201d and \u201cO Sacred Head, Now Wounded,\u201d and the Children\u2019s Puppet Ministry from Promise Church will be sharing the Word with all of the young people in the congregation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submitted information A local tradition for over 70 years \u2013 the Van Wert Area Community-Wide Good Friday Service \u2013 will continue this Good Friday, March 29, at Promise Church, 1017 S. Shannon St. in Van Wert. This community collaboration includes nine pastors representing 10 congregations. Area pastors will be participating in the service with scripture [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-09 02:09:46","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176895,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176894\/revisions\/176895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}