{"id":340,"date":"2015-02-11T13:20:47","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T18:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oursaviors-melo.org\/?page_id=340"},"modified":"2025-06-30T15:59:41","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T20:59:41","slug":"who-we-are","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/oursaviors-melo.org\/?page_id=340","title":{"rendered":"Who We Are"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Mission<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Our Savior\u2019s and Melo Lutheran Churches are communities of faith, saved by God&#8217;s grace, who strive to <strong>Seek <\/strong>God, <strong>Share <\/strong>God&#8217;s gifts, and <strong>Love <\/strong>God&#8217;s people. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Partners in the Gospel<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Our churches have been united as a parish for many years, sharing a pastor and collaborating in our ministry in the city and countryside of Warren. Our churches also participate in the work of the Warren Ministerial, which co-labors across denominations to proclaim the Gospel through word and deed in our city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Denomination<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">We are affiliated with the <a href=\"http:\/\/elca.org\">Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/nwmnsynod.org\">Northwestern Minnesota Synod of the ELCA. <\/a>At the heart of our denomination\u2019s faith is the conviction of God\u2019s immeasurable grace coming to us through the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. This grace is freely given to all who believe, and frees us to live in love toward our neighbor and all creation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&nbsp;<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mission Our Savior\u2019s and Melo Lutheran Churches are communities of faith, saved by God&#8217;s grace, who strive to Seek God, Share God&#8217;s gifts, and Love God&#8217;s people. Partners in the Gospel Our churches have been united as a parish for many years, sharing a pastor and collaborating in our ministry in the city and countryside [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-340","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oursaviors-melo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oursaviors-melo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oursaviors-melo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oursaviors-melo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oursaviors-melo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/oursaviors-melo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1535,"href":"https:\/\/oursaviors-melo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/340\/revisions\/1535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oursaviors-melo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oursaviors-melo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oursaviors-melo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}