{"id":3205,"date":"2022-03-08T16:04:14","date_gmt":"2022-03-08T16:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/?p=3205"},"modified":"2022-03-08T16:04:15","modified_gmt":"2022-03-08T16:04:15","slug":"columbia-city-celebrates-milestones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/2022\/03\/08\/columbia-city-celebrates-milestones\/","title":{"rendered":"Columbia City celebrates milestones"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"463\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2022\/03\/Columbia-City-mortgage-announcement.jpg\" alt=\"Pam Hoppe speaking at a lectern\" class=\"wp-image-3206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2022\/03\/Columbia-City-mortgage-announcement.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2022\/03\/Columbia-City-mortgage-announcement-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2022\/03\/Columbia-City-mortgage-announcement-560x432.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption><em>Landon Rehrer (left) and Pam Hoppe (right) announce the news of the Columbia City mortgage being paid 10 years early.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cccob.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Columbia City (Ind.) Church of the Brethren<\/a> members recently learned that their efforts to make additional mortgage payments has resulted in the mortgage being paid off ten months early. The mortgage was taken out in July 2017 to facilitate an addition to the existing building.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2021, the congregation celebrated their 60th anniversary and also reached the church\u2019s highest active membership of 143, with over 30 new members. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2022\/columbia-city-pays-off-mortgage-early\/\">www.brethren.org\/news\/2022\/columbia-city-pays-off-mortgage-early<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Columbia City Church of the Brethren had over 30 new members in 2021 and reached their highest active membership &#8211; as well as paying off their mortgage early.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3206,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[306,308,310,309,307],"class_list":["post-3205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indiana-northern","tag-09-130","tag-columbia-city-church-of-the-brethren","tag-membership","tag-mortgage","tag-northern-indiana-district"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}