{"id":2,"date":"2010-04-13T13:03:30","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T17:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2024-03-20T23:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T03:00:00","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?page_id=2","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks for stopping by this site.<\/p>\n<p>I am a believer in Christ, husband, father, pastor, and professor.<\/p>\n<p>My wife Tammie and I have 5 sons and one daughter.\u00a0 This is our first ministry.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/childrenshourbooks.blogspot.com\/\">The Children&#8217;s Hour blog <\/a>grew out of sharing about books we have read together at home.<\/p>\n<p>I serve as Vice President for University Ministries, Dean of the School of Theology &amp; Missions and Professor of Biblical Studies at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uu.edu\">Union University<\/a>, my alma mater and where I met my wife.\u00a0 We are delighted for the opportunity to be a part of this community which has meant so much to us.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/rvanneste.blogspot.com\/\">Oversight of Souls blog <\/a>grew out of my pastoral ministry class and pastoral labors.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>For more information read the following personal interview:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/ericcsmith.wordpress.com\/2009\/07\/23\/interview-with-dr-ray-van-neste\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Interview with Dr. Ray Van Neste<\/a>&#8221; by Eric Smith, pastor of Curve Baptist Church<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks for stopping by this site. I am a believer in Christ, husband, father, pastor, and professor. My wife Tammie and I have 5 sons and one daughter.\u00a0 This is our first ministry.\u00a0 The Children&#8217;s Hour blog grew out of sharing about books we have read together at home. I serve as Vice President for &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?page_id=2\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;About&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5383,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/5383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}