{"id":1058,"date":"2025-06-16T14:08:28","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T18:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/?post_type=article&#038;p=1058"},"modified":"2025-06-16T14:08:45","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T18:08:45","slug":"welcome-home-the-gathering-space","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/article\/welcome-home-the-gathering-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome Home, The Gathering Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>A New Chapter for EMES<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The excitement is palpable as we celebrate the completion of The Gathering Space-it&#8217;s filled with student laughter and learning. We&#8217;re grateful for the generosity of the contributors who made it possible.<\/p>\n<p>This dedicated area will enhance learning, foster connections, and support the wellbeing of our K-5 students. It also includes a stained glass piece by Zachary Nafziger &#8217;94. Welcome home to The Gathering Space!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1060\" style=\"width: 1510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1060\" class=\"wp-image-1060 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Gathering-Space-Opening-Ceremony-100.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"818\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Gathering-Space-Opening-Ceremony-100.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Gathering-Space-Opening-Ceremony-100-300x164.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Gathering-Space-Opening-Ceremony-100-1024x558.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Gathering-Space-Opening-Ceremony-100-768x419.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1060\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gathering Space Opening Ceremony<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A New Chapter for EMES The excitement is palpable as we celebrate the completion of The Gathering Space-it&#8217;s filled with student laughter and learning. We&#8217;re grateful for the generosity of the contributors who made it possible. This dedicated area will enhance learning, foster connections, and support the wellbeing of our K-5 students. It also includes&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1059,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"issuem_issue":[41],"issuem_issue_categories":[],"issuem_issue_tags":[],"class_list":["post-1058","article","type-article","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","issuem_issue-summer-2025"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/1058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1058"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/1058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1062,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/1058\/revisions\/1062"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"issuem_issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issuem_issue?post=1058"},{"taxonomy":"issuem_issue_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issuem_issue_categories?post=1058"},{"taxonomy":"issuem_issue_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/today\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issuem_issue_tags?post=1058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}