{"id":291,"date":"2016-10-21T14:18:28","date_gmt":"2016-10-21T14:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stpaulapostle.com\/?page_id=291"},"modified":"2023-12-08T15:26:51","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T20:26:51","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/spagr.org\/church\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">St. Paul the Apostle Parish is located on the southeast side of Grand Rapids.&nbsp; St. Paul&nbsp;was founded in 1965 and has grown steadily through the years.&nbsp; We are a vibrant parish community of 1200+ families from the greater Grand Rapids area and beyond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Vision Statement<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">We envision Saint Paul the Apostle Catholic Parish as a gathering of the Faithful constantly striving to follow Jesus as the early church did, \u201cdevoting themselves to Christ\u2019s teaching, Fellowship, the Eucharist and prayer.\u201d\u00a0 Acts 2:42.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><br>We encourage members of all ages by providing quality programs in on-going spiritual formation to participate in the faith community, to minister to those in need and to carry by word and action the moral voice of the Catholic Church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><br>We develop our facilities and enrich our programs toward these ends, utilizing the channels of communication within our parish to build awareness of plans, needs and opportunities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><br>We desire to take into the community the good news of Christ by living our faith as did St. Paul the Apostle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/spagr.org\/church\/staff\/\">Staff Contacts<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. Paul the Apostle Parish is located on the southeast side of Grand Rapids.&nbsp; St. Paul&nbsp;was founded in 1965 and has grown steadily through the years.&nbsp; We are a vibrant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-groupMinistries.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-291","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spagr.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spagr.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spagr.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spagr.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spagr.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/spagr.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9026,"href":"https:\/\/spagr.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/291\/revisions\/9026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spagr.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}