{"id":385,"date":"2022-01-08T15:22:52","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T21:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=385"},"modified":"2022-01-20T09:50:16","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T15:50:16","slug":"elders-retreat-on-the-role-of-elders-in-the-church","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/rallydaypicnic\/elders-retreat-on-the-role-of-elders-in-the-church\/","title":{"rendered":"Elders&#8217; Retreat &#8212; On the Role of Elders in the Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This retreat is hosted by the Pipestone Circuit of the Minnesota South District (LCMS)<\/p>\n<p>Our presenter is Rev. Timothy Mech.<\/p>\n<p>Rev. Timothy J. Mech has been pastor at Trinity Lutheran Church, Sheboygan, Wisconsin, since 1998. He also served as pastor of Bethel Lutheran Church, DuQuoin, Illinois (1989-1998). He is a graduate of Valparaiso University (BA) and Concordia Seminary, St. Louis (MDiv.).<\/p>\n<p>He is the author of the book, <em>Pastors and Elders: Caring for the Church and One Another<\/em>, Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, 2011.<\/p>\n<p>He has led Pastor and Elder retreats throughout the country and taught a class on the book at the Lutheran School of Theology near Nairobi, Kenya.<\/p>\n<p>Pastor Mech is a member of the LCMS <em>Preach the Word<\/em> committee. He is also a graduate of Doxology, an innovative program of advanced study retreats to strengthen pastors for the task of faithfully shepherding the souls entrusted to their care.<\/p>\n<p>He enjoys sports, traveling, hiking, biking, camping, and brewing his locally famous Pastor\u2019s Best beer. Pastor Mech is married to Darlene, a clinical psychologist, and has two adult children, Joshua (his wife Tori) and Emily.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This retreat is hosted by the Pipestone Circuit of the Minnesota South District (LCMS) Our presenter is Rev. Timothy Mech. Rev. Timothy J. Mech has been pastor at Trinity Lutheran &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/rallydaypicnic\/elders-retreat-on-the-role-of-elders-in-the-church\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Elders&#8217; Retreat &#8212; On the Role of Elders in the Church&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":393,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[7],"tribe_events_cat":[6],"class_list":["post-385","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-elders-retreat","tribe_events_cat-elders-retreat","cat_elders-retreat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":397,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/385\/revisions\/397"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trinityslayton.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}