{"id":136,"date":"2021-06-24T13:54:51","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T01:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.riverstoneretreat.co.nz\/?page_id=136"},"modified":"2021-06-25T10:36:54","modified_gmt":"2021-06-24T22:36:54","slug":"why","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.riverstoneretreat.co.nz\/index.php\/why\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Vision"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why Riverstone Retreat?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">22 Years ago, Vaughan and Mika had prophesied over them &#8220;Open your home to people&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">We did this. We had international students, homestay and family. We have had church home groups and bible studies, guests from overseas and from other churches staying periodically.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">In 2019 we moved to the valley, from an urban lifestyle to country retreat living. Conception prior to the move was to own a property with our own living accommodation and an extra dwelling for guest and pastoral care holidaying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This dream now is birthed in 2021 and the retreat has been set up as guest accomodation. Our calling to &#8220;Open your home to people&#8221; is a growing word from God. Hospitality is a special gift and anointing over our family; we gladly move in the Grace he has overflowed for us to do so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"256\" src=\"https:\/\/www.riverstoneretreat.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/UNADJUSTEDNONRAW_thumb_435-Version-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.riverstoneretreat.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/UNADJUSTEDNONRAW_thumb_435-Version-2.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.riverstoneretreat.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/UNADJUSTEDNONRAW_thumb_435-Version-2-300x75.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.riverstoneretreat.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/UNADJUSTEDNONRAW_thumb_435-Version-2-768x192.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.riverstoneretreat.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/UNADJUSTEDNONRAW_thumb_435-Version-2-640x160.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why Riverstone Retreat? 22 Years ago, Vaughan and Mika had prophesied over them &#8220;Open your home to people&#8221;. We did this. We had international students, homestay and family. We have had church home groups and bible studies, guests from overseas and from other churches&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-136","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riverstoneretreat.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riverstoneretreat.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riverstoneretreat.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riverstoneretreat.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riverstoneretreat.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.riverstoneretreat.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":266,"href":"https:\/\/www.riverstoneretreat.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/136\/revisions\/266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riverstoneretreat.co.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}