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Blue?<\/span><\/p>\n

Yes, blue as in \u201cthe blues.\u201d <\/span>As in \u201cI am feeling blue.\u201d <\/span>That\u2019s because not everyone is up and cheery <\/span>for the Christmas holidays.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dealing with the death of a loved one, facing life after divorce or separation, coping with the loss of a job, living with cancer or some other disease that puts a question mark over the future, and a number of other human situations can make parties and joviality painful for many people in our congregations and communities. <\/span>A Blue Christmas Service is where we acknowledge the struggles we all face, while providing a safe place of rest, comfort, and healing as you go through this dark time in your life.<\/span><\/p>\n

Join us on <\/span>Sunday, December 21<\/span>st<\/span> at 2pm <\/span>at GracePoint Church ~ 327 C St SW, Ephrata <\/span>for a service of reflection, prayer, and comfort.<\/span><\/p>\n

Childcare provided.<\/span> Questions: Call 509-754-3351<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Blue? Yes, blue as in \u201cthe blues.\u201d As in \u201cI am feeling blue.\u201d That\u2019s because not everyone is up and cheery for the Christmas holidays. Dealing with the death of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":11134,"template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","_tribe_events_is_hybrid":"","_tribe_events_is_virtual":"","_tribe_events_virtual_video_source":"","_tribe_events_virtual_embed_video":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button_text":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_at":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_to":[],"_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_event":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_views":"","_tribe_events_virtual_url":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[],"class_list":["post-14310","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gracepointephrata.org\/fbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/14310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gracepointephrata.org\/fbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gracepointephrata.org\/fbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gracepointephrata.org\/fbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gracepointephrata.org\/fbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/14310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14311,"href":"https:\/\/www.gracepointephrata.org\/fbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/14310\/revisions\/14311"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gracepointephrata.org\/fbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gracepointephrata.org\/fbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gracepointephrata.org\/fbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14310"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gracepointephrata.org\/fbc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=14310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}