{"id":32183,"date":"2016-03-09T10:53:50","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T16:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mesoamericaregion.org\/es\/?p=32032"},"modified":"2016-03-09T10:53:50","modified_gmt":"2016-03-09T16:53:50","slug":"hope-in-bataca-dominica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mesonaz.org\/en\/hope-in-bataca-dominica\/","title":{"rendered":"Hope in Bataca, Dominica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every week, the members of the Church of the Nazarene in Bataca, Dominica, visit the sick, elderly and those in extreme poverty in their community; bringing hope and joy through songs, prayers, fellowship and also delivering food packages and assistance.<\/p>\n<p>Bataca is the most vulnerable area in Dominica, many of the church members have very little, but that has not prevented them from being Jesus\u2019 compassionate hands in a real and tangible way. The Church of the Nazarene in Bataca is the only Nazarene Compassionate Ministries Center in the Caribbean Field.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Let us pray for the church in Bataca, the compassionate center and W&amp;W coordinators, Steve and Amanda Pettit; that God will bless and prosper them to continue helping more people.<\/p>\n<p>Information provided by: Amanda Pettit, Caribbean Field W&amp;W<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 25%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-32183 gallery-columns-4 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a data-rel=\"iLightbox[postimages]\" data-title=\"Fernandez\" data-caption=\"\" href='https:\/\/www.mesonaz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Fernandez.jpg'><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"167\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mesonaz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Fernandez-167x200.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mesonaz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Fernandez-167x200.jpg 167w, https:\/\/www.mesonaz.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Fernandez.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 167px) 100vw, 167px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every week, the members of the Church of the Nazarene in Bataca, Dominica, visit the sick, elderly and those in extreme poverty in their community; bringing hope and joy through songs, prayers, fellowship and also delivering food packages and assistance. Bataca is the most vulnerable area in Dominica, many of the church members have very <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mesonaz.org\/en\/hope-in-bataca-dominica\/\"> <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":31799,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522,262,260],"tags":[3717,3718],"class_list":["post-32183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-caribbean-field","category-compassion","category-news","tag-dominica-en","tag-hope-in-bataca-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mesonaz.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mesonaz.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mesonaz.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mesonaz.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mesonaz.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mesonaz.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mesonaz.org\/en\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mesonaz.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mesonaz.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mesonaz.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}