{"id":428,"date":"2026-08-05T12:03:32","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T02:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kenya.gvcf.org.au\/?p=428"},"modified":"2026-08-05T12:03:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T02:03:32","slug":"mission-celebration-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenya.gvcf.org.au\/?p=428","title":{"rendered":"Mission Celebration Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We recently had the joy of celebrating the return of our Kenya Mission Team with a special Mission Sunday at GVCF.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As part of the service, Samuel shared one of the messages he had been teaching while ministering in Kenya. He challenged us to consider a deeper understanding of poverty\u2014not simply as a lack of material resources, but as the breakdown of our relationships with God, with others, with ourselves, and with creation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was a timely and thought-provoking message that reminded us the gospel is about restoring every one of those relationships through Jesus. Samuel&#8217;s teaching encouraged us to look beyond outward need and consider God&#8217;s heart for true restoration and transformation in every community, including our own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you missed the service or would like to hear this encouraging message again, you can watch the full service via the link below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"02.08.2026 | Missions Sunday\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yFZJO13OpTE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We recently had the joy of celebrating the return of our Kenya Mission Team with a special Mission Sunday at GVCF. As part of the service, Samuel shared one of the messages he had been teaching while ministering in Kenya. He challenged us to consider a deeper understanding of poverty\u2014not simply as a lack of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenya.gvcf.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenya.gvcf.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenya.gvcf.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenya.gvcf.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenya.gvcf.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kenya.gvcf.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":429,"href":"https:\/\/kenya.gvcf.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions\/429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenya.gvcf.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenya.gvcf.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenya.gvcf.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}