{"id":1149,"date":"2016-03-05T13:06:21","date_gmt":"2016-03-05T19:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firstpcportage.com\/?page_id=1149"},"modified":"2026-08-28T20:27:55","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T01:27:55","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.firstpcportage.com\/?page_id=1149","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"First Presbyterian Church in Portage la Prairie is a small congregation.\u00a0 Currently, we have no regular minister.\u00a0 Our interim moderator is Rev. Gladys Anderson from Neepawa. She can be contacted at <a href=\"mailto:gladys@andersonbunch.com\">gladys@andersonbunch.com<\/a>. Our Clerk of Session is Raymond Reichelt, who is also the webmaster for this website and he can be reached at <a href=\"mailto:raymondr@mts.net\">raymondr@mts.net.<\/a>\n\nIn addition to our regular services at 10:30 on Sundays, our Church has the following activities:\n\n<hr \/>\n\nThe\u00a0<strong>Christian Education Committee <\/strong>exists\u00a0to deepen understanding and explore all aspects of a Christian life though Sunday school lessons, youth group meetings, adult Bible studies and Vacation Bible School.\n\nSunday School and Youth Group meet every 2<sup>nd<\/sup> Sunday, during church service.\u00a0 Adult Bible studies run 2-3 times a year, meeting usually on Tuesday evenings, for anywhere from 4-10 weeks.\u00a0 Vacation Bible School meets for 5 evenings, usually in August.\n\n<hr \/>\n\nThe\u00a0<strong>First Presbyterian Church Men\u2019s Breakfast Club <\/strong>meets every second Saturday at 9:00 AM in the Church hall (basement). \u00a0We meet for fellowship and to raise funds for the Sunday School. \u00a0We have these breakfast meetings from October to May.\n\nBreakfast is $7:00 and usually bacon or sausage with eggs, hash browns, toast and coffee.\n\nThe next \u00a0Men\u2019s Breakfast is usually noted in the announcements. Come and check us out.\n\n\n\nFirst Presbyterian Church is fully committed to the Safe Church Policy as laid out by the Presbyterian Church in Canada.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/presbyterian.ca\/resources\/resources-od\/safe-church\/\">See this website for more information<\/a>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<hr \/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First Presbyterian Church in Portage la Prairie is a small congregation.\u00a0 Currently, we have no regular minister.\u00a0 Our interim moderator is Rev. Gladys Anderson from Neepawa. She can be contacted at gladys@andersonbunch.com. Our Clerk of Session is Raymond Reichelt, who &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstpcportage.com\/?page_id=1149\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstpcportage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1149"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstpcportage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstpcportage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstpcportage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstpcportage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1149"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstpcportage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4505,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstpcportage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1149\/revisions\/4505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstpcportage.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}