{"id":66,"date":"2013-12-20T10:54:32","date_gmt":"2013-12-20T15:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.thechurchofeternallife.com\/wp\/?page_id=66"},"modified":"2016-02-05T20:42:47","modified_gmt":"2016-02-06T01:42:47","slug":"about-our-church","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thechurchofeternallife.org\/wp\/?page_id=66","title":{"rendered":"About Our Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Mission:<\/h2>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">T<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">he \u201cChurch of Eternal Life\u201d is a very active Spiritualist church\u00a0<\/span>teaching Natural Law, which is God&#8217;s immutable law. \u00a0We practice personal responsibility,\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">spiritual healing, laying on of hands healing and communication with the &#8220;so called&#8221; dead through mediumship. \u00a0Everyone is welcomed with LOVE to attend.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-108\" alt=\"window\" src=\"https:\/\/thechurchofeternallife.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/window-144x300.jpg\" width=\"144\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\">History:<\/h2>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The \u201cChurch\u00a0of\u00a0Eternal Life\u201d is not at all &#8220;new.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0It was first organized in 1926 as the \u201cUnity\u00a0Spiritualist\u00a0Church\u201d in\u00a0Camden,\u00a0New Jersey.\u00a0\u00a0At that time, the members met in private homes, which was a common practice of the times.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">In 1941, a three-story private home was purchased in\u00a0Camden\u00a0and was converted into a church.\u00a0\u00a0For the next 47 years, services, development classes, circles and readings were conducted as well as many \u201cpot luck suppers,\u201d silver teas and fundraisers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">In 1987, the church building was sold and for the next two years, the members began meeting in the\u00a0Merchantville\u00a0Community Center.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">In 1989, the current church building in\u00a0Westville,\u00a0New Jersey\u00a0was purchased and once again there was a change in name to the \u201cChurch\u00a0of\u00a0Eternal Life,\u201d which remains today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mission: The \u201cChurch of Eternal Life\u201d is a very active Spiritualist church\u00a0teaching Natural Law, which is God&#8217;s immutable law. \u00a0We practice personal responsibility,\u00a0spiritual healing, laying on of hands healing and communication with the &#8220;so called&#8221; dead through mediumship. \u00a0Everyone is&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechurchofeternallife.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechurchofeternallife.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechurchofeternallife.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechurchofeternallife.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechurchofeternallife.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/thechurchofeternallife.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":232,"href":"https:\/\/thechurchofeternallife.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66\/revisions\/232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechurchofeternallife.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}