{"id":1443,"date":"2016-12-24T23:55:59","date_gmt":"2016-12-24T23:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigfinnestad.com\/?p=1443"},"modified":"2016-12-30T00:30:11","modified_gmt":"2016-12-30T00:30:11","slug":"really-cool-silent-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigfinnestad.com\/?p=1443","title":{"rendered":"A Really Cool Silent Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WE had such a wonderful Christmas Eve at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weomaha.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Water&#8217;s Edge<\/a>. Over 1,500 people worshipped with us which is a new record! I want to thank each of the staff and volunteers &#8211; well over 100 of you &#8211; who made this possible. Also a special thanks to the band. You were awesome and put in a ton of hours.<\/p>\n<p>Excited for 2017. WE will be breaking ground on our first building in a few months and lots of cool stuff planned to serve our city.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1449\" style=\"width: 970px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1449\" class=\"wp-image-1449 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/craigfinnestad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/15697386_1397110506989653_4073113057458455408_n.jpg\" alt=\"15697386_1397110506989653_4073113057458455408_n\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/craigfinnestad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/15697386_1397110506989653_4073113057458455408_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/craigfinnestad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/15697386_1397110506989653_4073113057458455408_n-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/craigfinnestad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/15697386_1397110506989653_4073113057458455408_n-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/craigfinnestad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/15697386_1397110506989653_4073113057458455408_n-585x390.jpg 585w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1449\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michele and Chad welcoming our guests.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1446\" style=\"width: 970px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1446\" class=\"wp-image-1446 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/craigfinnestad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/15698210_1397110496989654_1912768068586873812_n.jpg\" alt=\"15698210_1397110496989654_1912768068586873812_n\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/craigfinnestad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/15698210_1397110496989654_1912768068586873812_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/craigfinnestad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/15698210_1397110496989654_1912768068586873812_n-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/craigfinnestad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/15698210_1397110496989654_1912768068586873812_n-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/craigfinnestad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/15698210_1397110496989654_1912768068586873812_n-585x390.jpg 585w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1446\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Celebrating the Lord&#8217;s Supper.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1448\" style=\"width: 970px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1448\" class=\"wp-image-1448 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/craigfinnestad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/15726913_1397110453656325_4393972636186810947_n.jpg\" alt=\"15726913_1397110453656325_4393972636186810947_n\" width=\"960\" height=\"642\" srcset=\"https:\/\/craigfinnestad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/15726913_1397110453656325_4393972636186810947_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/craigfinnestad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/15726913_1397110453656325_4393972636186810947_n-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/craigfinnestad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/15726913_1397110453656325_4393972636186810947_n-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/craigfinnestad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/15726913_1397110453656325_4393972636186810947_n-585x391.jpg 585w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1448\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The band doing their thing. So blessed to have them leading us in worship.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1447\" style=\"width: 970px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1447\" class=\"wp-image-1447 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/craigfinnestad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/15726621_1397110473656323_492685742565213758_n.jpg\" alt=\"15726621_1397110473656323_492685742565213758_n\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/craigfinnestad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/15726621_1397110473656323_492685742565213758_n.jpg 960w, https:\/\/craigfinnestad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/15726621_1397110473656323_492685742565213758_n-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/craigfinnestad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/15726621_1397110473656323_492685742565213758_n-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/craigfinnestad.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/15726621_1397110473656323_492685742565213758_n-585x390.jpg 585w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1447\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Talking about how to make our January less ordinary.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WE had such a wonderful Christmas Eve at The Water&#8217;s Edge. Over 1,500 people worshipped with us which is a new record! I want to thank each of the staff and volunteers &#8211; well over 100 of you &#8211; who&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[105],"class_list":["post-1443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-waters-edge","tag-the-waters-edge"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v16.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Photos and a recap of our Christmas Eve worship experiences.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/craigfinnestad.com\/?p=1443\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A Really Cool Silent Night - 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