{"id":1812,"date":"2018-11-03T18:16:47","date_gmt":"2018-11-03T18:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1812"},"modified":"2018-11-03T18:16:47","modified_gmt":"2018-11-03T18:16:47","slug":"rally-point-youth-for-christ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1812","title":{"rendered":"Rally Point&#8230; Youth for Christ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other night our Wednesday Bible Study group volunteered at Youth for Christ&#8217;s &#8220;Rally Point&#8221; outreach in Lima. \u00a0The YFC building is situated in the heart of a quite hardscrabble neighborhood. \u00a0And kids here, many of them, are in tough situations amidst the poverty, drugs, gangs&#8230; \u00a0Rally Point provides a safe place for after-school tutoring, a nightly meal, recreation areas with pool tables, and such, an outdoor basketball court, and now, a new courtyard area as well. One of the staff people took me outside at one point to show me this area, complete with three quite nice, all- weather, picnic tables &#8212; with umbrellas &#8212; that had been subsidized with a grant from the city. \u00a0The next phase is to get some lighting for the area. \u00a0And that&#8217;s where my son Jonathan is going to come in, again. \u00a0Go <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voteforjoe.com\/first-kid-jonathan\">to&#8230;<\/a>\u00a0*and scroll to the bottom of the page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other night our Wednesday Bible Study group volunteered at Youth for Christ&#8217;s &#8220;Rally Point&#8221; outreach in Lima. \u00a0The YFC building is situated in the heart of a quite hardscrabble neighborhood. \u00a0And kids here, many of them, are in tough <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1812\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1813,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812\/revisions\/1813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}