{"id":258,"date":"2010-06-17T12:32:53","date_gmt":"2010-06-17T19:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/?p=258"},"modified":"2010-06-17T12:32:53","modified_gmt":"2010-06-17T19:32:53","slug":"pcusa-ordains-1st-iranian-pastor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/17\/pcusa-ordains-1st-iranian-pastor\/","title":{"rendered":"PC(USA) ordains 1st Iranian Pastor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, this is a small world. Mansour Khajehpour was just ordained by Seattle Presbytery <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcusa.org\/pcnews\/2010\/10498.htm\">as the first Iranian<\/a> to become a PC(USA) minister of Word and sacrament.<\/p>\n<p>I knew Mansour (a little) in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ptsem.edu\/\">seminary<\/a>. He was in the class two years after mine, so we didn&#8217;t have any classes together. One of my kids was friends with one of his kid&#8217;s friends, though. They were in the building on the opposite side of Emmons Drive, <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&#038;source=s_q&#038;hl=en&#038;geocode=&#038;q=310+Emmons+Drive,+Princeton,+NJ&#038;sll=37.0625,-95.677068&#038;sspn=53.035373,71.806641&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;hq=&#038;hnear=310+Emmons+Dr,+Princeton,+Mercer,+New+Jersey+08540&#038;ll=40.31288,-74.667951&#038;spn=0.00315,0.004383&#038;t=h&#038;z=18\">facing Loetscher Place<\/a>. Small world!<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to the <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps\/place?um=1&#038;ie=UTF-8&#038;q=first+presbyterian+church+fort+scott+ks&#038;fb=1&#038;gl=us&#038;hq=first+presbyterian+church&#038;hnear=Fort+Scott,+KS&#038;cid=11513614160774122547\">First Presbyterian Church<\/a> of Fort Scott, Kansas, where Mansour will serve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, this is a small world. Mansour Khajehpour was just ordained by Seattle Presbytery as the first Iranian to become a PC(USA) minister of Word and sacrament. I knew Mansour (a little) in seminary. He was in the class two years after mine, so we didn&#8217;t have any classes together. One of my kids was &hellip; <span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/17\/pcusa-ordains-1st-iranian-pastor\/\">Continue reading &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[15,229,235,40,670,45,271],"class_list":{"0":"post-258","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"tag-church","7":"tag-ordination","8":"tag-pastor","9":"tag-pcusa","11":"tag-presbyterian","12":"tag-seminary"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}