{"id":98,"date":"2006-07-19T04:50:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-19T04:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/wordpress\/?p=98"},"modified":"2006-07-19T04:50:00","modified_gmt":"2006-07-19T04:50:00","slug":"living-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/living-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"Living Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This past Sunday we spoke at a new church plant in Port Orchard WA called Living Hope.  The church is about 20 mins from our home church Discovery Baptist.  Pastor Joe Parkinson started the church about 3 years ago with the help of Silverdale Baptist church (another of our supporting churches). <\/p>\n<p>It was great to see how well Living Hope was doing.  Caleb has known Pastor Joe ever since he was about 12 years old because the Parkinson family attend Discovery for about 6 or 7 years while Pastor Joe was in seminary.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sukofamily.org\/uploaded_images\/IMG_3480-758781.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sukofamily.org\/uploaded_images\/IMG_3480-756117.JPG\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>  We spent Sunday afternoon at Caleb&#8217;s parent&#8217;s house in Gig Harbor.  We even got a chance to go on a little &#8220;date&#8221; walk in downtown Gig Harbor.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sukofamily.org\/uploaded_images\/IMG_3479-764053.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sukofamily.org\/uploaded_images\/IMG_3479-762696.JPG\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>  It was a pleasant Western Washington summer afternoon.  Even Mt Rainer was showing her face!<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sukofamily.org\/uploaded_images\/IMG_3478-749867.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sukofamily.org\/uploaded_images\/IMG_3478-745454.JPG\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sukofamily.org\/uploaded_images\/IMG_3477-754790.JPG\"><\/a>&nbsp;<a href='http:\/\/picasa.google.com\/blogger\/' target='ext'><img src='http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' style='border: 0px none ; padding: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;' align='middle' border='0' \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past Sunday we spoke at a new church plant in Port Orchard WA called Living Hope.  The church is about 20 mins from our home church Discovery Baptist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updates"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3izZc-1A","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7889,"url":"https:\/\/sukofamily.org\/were-coming-to-the-us\/","url_meta":{"origin":98,"position":0},"title":"We&#8217;re Coming to the US","author":"Caleb Suko","date":"June 6, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Dear friends, This year our family will be traveling to the US. 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