{"id":77,"date":"2023-04-17T15:21:07","date_gmt":"2023-04-17T15:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ipswichtownpastors.org.uk\/?page_id=77"},"modified":"2023-04-17T15:21:07","modified_gmt":"2023-04-17T15:21:07","slug":"town-pastor","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ipswichtownpastors.org.uk\/?page_id=77","title":{"rendered":"Town Pastor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Town Pastors come from churches in and around Ipswich. &nbsp;We are out in Town on weekend nights from 10 to 4 (end times can be earlier, but now and then can be later).<br>If you<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>care about young and not-so-young people<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>have a heart for Ipswich<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>can walk up to 7 miles a night<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>can treat all sorts and conditions of people equally<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>can stay with someone who is blind drunk for a couple of hours while they sober up<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>are prepared to respond to all questions non-dogmatically<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>accept someone whose lifestyle appears to be far from God(ly)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>can tell when someone is just hustling you for a Freddo<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>can cope with messy people<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>can give up a minimum of one night a month<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>have the backing of your minister\/pastor<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>then you may want to lay this before God, talk to some Christian friends, and look through the application forms. &nbsp;We recruit from time to time, and training covers theology, first aid, personal safety, prayer and a few other things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Please download and complete the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipswichtownpastors.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Town_Pastor_application_form-2019.pdf\" data-type=\"attachment\" data-id=\"81\">Application form<\/a>.<br>Please let your Minister\/Pastor know that you are applying as we do ask for a reference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Town Pastors come from churches in and around Ipswich. &nbsp;We are out in Town on weekend nights from 10 to 4 (end times can be [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-77","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ipswichtownpastors.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ipswichtownpastors.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ipswichtownpastors.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipswichtownpastors.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipswichtownpastors.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipswichtownpastors.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82,"href":"https:\/\/www.ipswichtownpastors.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/77\/revisions\/82"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ipswichtownpastors.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}