{"id":2274,"date":"2012-05-15T17:46:44","date_gmt":"2012-05-15T17:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/?p=2274"},"modified":"2012-05-15T17:46:44","modified_gmt":"2012-05-15T17:46:44","slug":"finding-god-at-harvard-lanya-olmsted-testimony-sunday-may-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/15\/finding-god-at-harvard-lanya-olmsted-testimony-sunday-may-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding God At Harvard; Lanya Olmsted Testimony Sunday May 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lanya Olmsted has been a part of Christ Community since 1997, when her<br \/>\nparents, Sylvia and Tom, arrived as new Gainesville residents. \u00a0They were<br \/>\nnew Christians with two young children.<\/p>\n<p>In many ways, Lanya seems to me to be one of &#8220;our&#8221; first kids to grow up<br \/>\nand go off to college. \u00a0We were privileged to watch her mature, take trips<br \/>\nto Africa and Mexico to serve people, and begin to discover what important<br \/>\nways God wants to use her to advance His kingdom. \u00a0When Lanya left&#8212;I had<br \/>\nno idea what college would be like for her. \u00a0How it might change her, etc.<br \/>\n(Especially since she was going off to the Mississippi State of the<br \/>\nnorth&#8212;Harvard!) \u00a0Visions of all kinds of fearful things were abundant.<br \/>\nBut God&#8217;s grace is always stronger.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past few months it has been my privilege and joy to listen as<br \/>\nLanya recounts the powerful work of God in her heart and mind. \u00a0There is<br \/>\nmuch joy and transformation of Lanya&#8217;s thinking, feeling and desiring that<br \/>\nis so obviously God-wrought.<\/p>\n<p>I am thrilled that she will be telling her story in both services on<br \/>\nSunday May 20.<\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/15\/finding-god-at-harvard-lanya-olmsted-testimony-sunday-may-20\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"25\" show_faces=\"true\" font=\"arial\" action=\"recommend\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lanya Olmsted has been a part of Christ Community since 1997, when her<br \/> parents, Sylvia and Tom, arrived as new Gainesville residents. \u00a0They were<br \/> new Christians with two young children.<\/p>\n<p>In many ways, Lanya seems to me to be one of &#8220;our&#8221; first kids to grow up<br \/> and go off to college. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-pastor"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1FrAa-AG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2275,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2274\/revisions\/2275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}