{"id":2567,"date":"2016-12-09T00:11:52","date_gmt":"2016-12-09T00:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stigmaunmasked.com\/?p=2567"},"modified":"2016-12-09T00:11:52","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T00:11:52","slug":"urban-light-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitalresearch.bsu.edu\/stigmaunmasked.addiction\/article\/urban-light-church\/","title":{"rendered":"Urban Light Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Urban Light Church<\/h1>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qutQ6HJr-L4\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450px\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Pastors\u2005at\u2005Urban\u2005Light\u2005Community\u2005Church\u2005have\u2005seen\u2005how\u2005meth\u2005can\u2005impact\u2005a\u2005congregation\u2005and\u2005the\u2005community\u2005they\u2005live\u2005in.\u2005Michael\u2005Kuhn\u2005explains\u2005how\u2005Pastors\u2005Andrew\u2005Draper\u2005and\u2005Toddric\u2005Gordon\u2005approach\u2005the\u2005issue.\u2005<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Pastors\u2005at\u2005Urban\u2005Light\u2005Community\u2005Church\u2005have\u2005seen\u2005how\u2005meth\u2005can\u2005impact\u2005a\u2005congregation\u2005and\u2005the\u2005community\u2005they\u2005live\u2005in.\u2005Michael\u2005Kuhn\u2005explains\u2005how\u2005Pastors\u2005Andrew\u2005Draper\u2005and\u2005Toddric\u2005Gordon\u2005approach\u2005the\u2005issue.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Draper is the senior pastor at Urban Light Community Church in Muncie. He moved to Muncie&#8217;s South Central neighborhood 13 years ago after learning about the struggles the community was facing.<\/p>\n<p>He, along with other community members, decided to open Urban Light as a means of addressing those issues. One of those issues is addiction.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s where Toddric Gordon comes in. As the community outreach pastor, he leads the Growth and Recovery group on Monday nights to help people struggling with addiction.<\/p>\n<p>Draper and Gordon have both seen how addiction and meth can negatively impact a community, and specifically their congregation. They explain their own approach to handling the issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Urban Light Church Pastors\u2005at\u2005Urban\u2005Light\u2005Community\u2005Church\u2005have\u2005seen\u2005how\u2005meth\u2005can\u2005impact\u2005a\u2005congregation\u2005and\u2005the\u2005community\u2005they\u2005live\u2005in.\u2005Michael\u2005Kuhn\u2005explains\u2005how\u2005Pastors\u2005Andrew\u2005Draper\u2005and\u2005Toddric\u2005Gordon\u2005approach\u2005the\u2005issue.\u2005<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":2578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,11],"tags":[31,63,71,95,96],"class_list":["post-2567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-article","category-video","tag-church","tag-light","tag-muncie","tag-urban","tag-urban-light-church"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalresearch.bsu.edu\/stigmaunmasked.addiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalresearch.bsu.edu\/stigmaunmasked.addiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalresearch.bsu.edu\/stigmaunmasked.addiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalresearch.bsu.edu\/stigmaunmasked.addiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalresearch.bsu.edu\/stigmaunmasked.addiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/digitalresearch.bsu.edu\/stigmaunmasked.addiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalresearch.bsu.edu\/stigmaunmasked.addiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitalresearch.bsu.edu\/stigmaunmasked.addiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalresearch.bsu.edu\/stigmaunmasked.addiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitalresearch.bsu.edu\/stigmaunmasked.addiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}