{"id":266,"date":"2010-05-15T09:23:09","date_gmt":"2010-05-15T14:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heartofgraceministries.com\/blog\/?p=266"},"modified":"2012-02-22T08:50:46","modified_gmt":"2012-02-22T13:50:46","slug":"reflection-on-sonfest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heartofgraceministries.com\/blog\/news\/reflection-on-sonfest\/","title":{"rendered":"Singing and Speaking At SONfest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted to say first and foremost that I truly enjoyed myself at the Stanfield Church of God&#8217;s SONfest. Some of the creative ways that they used to reach out to children and captivate their attention and interest was simply awesome.<\/p>\n<p>I truly appreciated the opportunity to be able to get up there and share my story. If you could have stood where I was standing last night, you would have seen so many eyes on you, heeding your every word.<\/p>\n<p>Truly I felt it strongest to express how real that temptation can be, and how easy it is to make the wrong mistake. For it is better to speak these things while kids have a chance before they face the tougher things in life, than to be saying it from a &#8220;I told you so&#8221; point of view.<\/p>\n<p>I loved those kids, and can&#8217;t wait to see how they have grown soon. God Bless You!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted to say first and foremost that I truly enjoyed myself at the Stanfield Church of God&#8217;s SONfest. Some of the creative ways that they used to reach out to children and captivate their attention and interest was simply awesome. 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