{"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":"2024-08-31T09:49:12","modified_gmt":"2024-08-31T14:49:12","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.firstpcportage.com\/?page_id=1149","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"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 <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><\/p>\n<p>In addition to our regular services at 10:30 on Sundays, our Church has the following activities:<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>The\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.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday 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.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>The\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.<\/p>\n<p>Breakfast is $5:00 and usually bacon or sausage\u00a0with eggs, hash browns, toast and coffee.<\/p>\n<p>The next \u00a0Men\u2019s Breakfast is usually noted in the announcements. Come and check us out.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","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":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstpcportage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3961,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstpcportage.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1149\/revisions\/3961"}],"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}]}}