{"id":600,"date":"2013-08-05T05:00:14","date_gmt":"2013-08-05T12:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bethellutheranchurch.org\/?p=600"},"modified":"2013-06-18T19:58:19","modified_gmt":"2013-06-19T02:58:19","slug":"august-11-special-guest-preacher-the-rev-mary-lindberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bethellutheranchurch.org\/august-11-special-guest-preacher-the-rev-mary-lindberg\/","title":{"rendered":"August 11 Special Guest Preacher: the Rev. Mary Lindberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor Lindberg comes to us from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.compasshousingalliance.org\/\">Compass Housing Alliance<\/a> where she serves as the Community Engagement Coordinator.<\/p>\n<p>A little bit about Compass (from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.compasshousingalliance.org\/about\/\">their website)<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>The Compass Center was founded in 1920 when a remarkable couple from Sweden (Reverend and Mrs. Alva Karlstrom) began a little mission in Seattle &#150; part chapel, part employment agency, part reading room, part language school, part soup kitchen, part crash-pad for the stranded. Over the years, the face of homelessness has continued to change, and the Compass Center adjusted and expanded accordingly.&nbsp; By the end of 2009, the Compass Center was operating day services, emergency shelter, transitional housing, permanent housing, and family shelter at 19 locations around the Seattle Area.<\/p>\n<p>Family &amp; Adult Service Center (FASC) operated as an independent homeless day center and family program until 2007, when it partnered operations with The Compass Center. &nbsp;In 2009, FASC&#146;s programs officially became part of the Compass umbrella of services.<\/p>\n<p>LATCH was incorporated as a non-profit housing development organization by four Lutheran churches in 1990.&nbsp; At the time of the merger, LATCH had 36 member congregations and owned and operated 205 apartments, which provide stable, affordable homes to nearly 500 people, half of whom are children.<\/p>\n<p>In 2009, LATCH and The Compass Center began the process of merging into one comprehensive housing and services agency.&nbsp; Compass Housing Alliance was officially born on January 1, 2010.<\/p>\n<p>In July 2011, HomeStep became a part of Compass.&nbsp; This greatly expanded the agency&#146;s capacity to serve families and also increased transitional housing options for single adults.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor Lindberg comes to us from Compass Housing Alliance where she serves as the Community Engagement Coordinator. A little bit about Compass (from their website): The Compass Center was founded in 1920 when a remarkable couple from Sweden (Reverend and Mrs. Alva Karlstrom) began a little mission in Seattle &#150; part chapel, part employment agency, &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bethellutheranchurch.org\/august-11-special-guest-preacher-the-rev-mary-lindberg\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":601,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-blc_admin","4":"post-600","6":"format-standard","7":"has-post-thumbnail","8":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bethellutheranchurch.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bethellutheranchurch.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bethellutheranchurch.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bethellutheranchurch.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bethellutheranchurch.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bethellutheranchurch.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":602,"href":"https:\/\/www.bethellutheranchurch.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions\/602"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bethellutheranchurch.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bethellutheranchurch.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bethellutheranchurch.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bethellutheranchurch.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}