{"id":1030,"date":"2006-06-04T07:06:30","date_gmt":"2006-06-04T07:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2006\/06\/new-opportunity.html"},"modified":"2006-06-04T07:06:30","modified_gmt":"2006-06-04T07:06:30","slug":"new-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2006\/06\/new-opportunity.html","title":{"rendered":"New Opportunity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While Kris and I were in Italy, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theemmauscommunity.org\/epastorsalise.html\">Alise Barrymore<\/a>, the former campus minister at North Park and who is starting up a new community church with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theemmauscommunity.org\/epastorsjames.html\">James King<\/a>, wrote and asked us to come down to speak about The DaVinci Code. So, we are really excited about joining <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theemmauscommunity.org\/index.html\">The Emmaus Community<\/a> next Sunday. 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