{"id":48,"date":"2017-06-26T09:51:42","date_gmt":"2017-06-26T09:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/crossintown\/?page_id=48"},"modified":"2026-09-07T09:13:53","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T09:13:53","slug":"introduction","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/crossintown\/introduction\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"style10 wp-block-paragraph\">Since 1998 a small team has taken a cross to the centre of Reading once a week to stand and&nbsp;<strong>pray<\/strong>&nbsp;for the town.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"style10 wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The team is made up of Christians from<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">different<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">local congregations.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our hope is very simple &#8211; that people will see the cross, be&nbsp;<strong>challenged<\/strong>&nbsp;by it and the words on it and be pointed towards Christ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are there to pray for the town and for change.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; We are there to offer&nbsp;<strong>prayer<\/strong>&nbsp;for individuals.&nbsp;&nbsp; We are there to&nbsp;<strong>engage<\/strong>&nbsp;people with Jesus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Malc Peirce<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">0735 536 5959<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since 1998 a small team has taken a cross to the centre of Reading once a week to stand and&nbsp;pray&nbsp;for the town. The team is made up of Christians from&nbsp;different&nbsp;local congregations. Our hope is very simple &#8211; that people will see the cross, be&nbsp;challenged&nbsp;by it and the words on it and be pointed towards Christ. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/crossintown\/introduction\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Introduction&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-48","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/crossintown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/crossintown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/crossintown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/crossintown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/crossintown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/crossintown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/48\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":534,"href":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/crossintown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/48\/revisions\/534"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/crossintown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/crossintown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}