{"id":8,"date":"2018-01-22T13:21:35","date_gmt":"2018-01-22T13:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/impactreading\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2020-05-12T14:07:37","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T14:07:37","slug":"introduction","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/impactreading\/introduction\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Impact Reading<\/strong>\u00a0 was a vision of the <strong>Reading Christian Network<\/strong> in the early 2000&#8217;s. The core of that vision was for the Church in Reading to &#8220;Impact Reading&#8221; through all the ministries that exist working together.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">To a large extent the vision has already been effective in that a good number of local Christian Social Action (Kingdom) ministries have built relationship, interacting, mutually referring people in need of each other&#8217;s ministries and encouraging one another.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This site exists in the hope that it will help in pulling together all the Christian Charities across Reading and making us all more aware of one another and what is on offer for people in need across &#8220;Greater Reading&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>From <strong>2020<\/strong> Reading Christian Network has been renamed &#8220;<strong>Transform Reading<\/strong>&#8221; and is much more focussed on <strong>kingdom ministry<\/strong>, making a separate &#8220;<strong>Impact Reading<\/strong>&#8221; sire somewhat redundant.<\/p>\n<p>M Peirce &#8211; CrossTownServices<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-113 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/impactreading\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/05\/Transform-Reading-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/impactreading\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/05\/Transform-Reading-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/impactreading\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/05\/Transform-Reading-1024x514.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/impactreading\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/05\/Transform-Reading-768x385.jpg 768w, https:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/impactreading\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/05\/Transform-Reading-1536x770.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/impactreading\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/05\/Transform-Reading.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Impact Reading\u00a0 was a vision of the Reading Christian Network in the early 2000&#8217;s. The core of that vision was for the Church in Reading to &#8220;Impact Reading&#8221; through all the ministries that exist working together. To a large extent the vision has already been effective in that a good number of local Christian Social &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/impactreading\/introduction\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Introduction&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/impactreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/impactreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/impactreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/impactreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/impactreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/impactreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114,"href":"https:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/impactreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions\/114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crosstownservices.co.uk\/impactreading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}