{"id":566,"date":"2021-04-26T19:12:50","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T19:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/generational-divide.jour342.com\/blog\/?p=566"},"modified":"2021-04-26T20:55:31","modified_gmt":"2021-04-26T20:55:31","slug":"the-sucasa-church-story-how-it-all-started-and-where-its-going","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generational-divide.jour342.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/26\/the-sucasa-church-story-how-it-all-started-and-where-its-going\/","title":{"rendered":"The SuCasa Church Story: How It All Started and Where It&#8217;s Going"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/generational-divide.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG_6004.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-567\" srcset=\"https:\/\/generational-divide.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG_6004.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/generational-divide.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG_6004-300x108.jpg 300w, https:\/\/generational-divide.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/IMG_6004-768x276.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>By Frank Canizares<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Collegedale Spanish-American Seventh-day Adventist church was founded as a mission group in 1985.  It all started as a group of Southern Adventist University students, both Hispanics and Americans, decided to have a Sabbath school class together. They moved around campus until the university and some Adventists neighbors decided to help them make their dream come true of having their own temple. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I had a chance to sit down with the church&#8217;s current senior pastor, Gamaliel Feliciano, and SuCasa&#8217;s former and current youth directors, Martha Calderon and Carolina Bonilla, as they explained how the original congregation developed into the SuCasa church. Join me as we learn the history behind a congregation that has found a way to bridge its generational gap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The SuCasa church story - How it all started and where it&#039;s going.\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/541786746?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Frank Canizares The Collegedale Spanish-American Seventh-day Adventist church was founded as a mission group in 1985. It all started as a group of Southern Adventist University students, both Hispanics and Americans, decided to have a Sabbath school class together. They moved around campus until the university and some Adventists neighbors decided to help them &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/generational-divide.jour342.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/26\/the-sucasa-church-story-how-it-all-started-and-where-its-going\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The SuCasa Church Story: How It All Started and Where It&#8217;s Going&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generational-divide.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generational-divide.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generational-divide.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generational-divide.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generational-divide.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=566"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/generational-divide.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":687,"href":"https:\/\/generational-divide.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566\/revisions\/687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generational-divide.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generational-divide.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generational-divide.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}