{"id":3804,"date":"2023-12-02T12:05:11","date_gmt":"2023-12-02T12:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/?p=3804"},"modified":"2023-12-02T12:06:11","modified_gmt":"2023-12-02T12:06:11","slug":"hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/hope\/","title":{"rendered":"Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Advent is a time of preparation and expectation for the coming of Christ, the time before celebrating the \u201cjoy to the world\u201d that God\u2019s incarnation becomes. In advance of a celebratory Christmas season that follows Advent<strong>, <\/strong>it is good for us to take time to reflect.<\/p>\n<p>We enter the Advent season with the call to watch, to wait, to work. Watching can be hard. Waiting can cause fear and confusion. Work can be difficult. Still, Jesus\u2019 disciples then and now are called to actively wait, with anticipation. In Hope.\u00a0 We may not know what is to come, but we know Who is to come.<\/p>\n<p>Join us on Sunday as we receive the Holy Spirit into our lives and ministry. A gift from the King of Kings.\u00a0 We begin worship at 10 am.\u00a0 All are welcome either in-person or on-line and the bulletin can be found on this website in the virtual bulletin tab.\u00a0<strong>We look forward to seeing you!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Coming_ready_or_not.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3806\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Coming_ready_or_not-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Coming_ready_or_not-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Coming_ready_or_not-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Coming_ready_or_not.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Advent is a time of preparation and expectation for the coming of Christ, the time before celebrating the \u201cjoy to the world\u201d that God\u2019s incarnation becomes. In advance of a celebratory Christmas season that follows Advent, it is good for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/hope\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3807,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-save-the-date"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3804"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3809,"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3804\/revisions\/3809"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stbartshhk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}