{"id":2006,"date":"2020-09-04T14:12:23","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T18:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riveroflifetwinlake.org\/riveroflife\/?page_id=2006"},"modified":"2025-08-12T00:03:42","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T04:03:42","slug":"our-pastor","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/riveroflifetwinlake.org\/riveroflife\/our-pastor\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Pastor"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"cro_cust_font\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3794 \" src=\"https:\/\/riveroflifetwinlake.org\/riveroflife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Matt-Family-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"416\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/riveroflifetwinlake.org\/riveroflife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Matt-Family-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/riveroflifetwinlake.org\/riveroflife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Matt-Family-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/riveroflifetwinlake.org\/riveroflife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Matt-Family-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/riveroflifetwinlake.org\/riveroflife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Matt-Family.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 416px) 100vw, 416px\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Matt Walsworth<\/span><\/h3>\n<h6>Lead Pastor<\/h6>\n<p>As the Lead Pastor of River of Life, Matt started shepherding River of Life in June, 2025 following the retirement of Don Benedict, who planted the church in 2000.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Matt and Kelsey&#8217;s Children<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Tad, Flynn, Lucey, Mya, and Madelynn<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/riveroflifetwinlake.org\/riveroflife\/connect\/\">PLAN YOUR FIRST VISIT<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/riveroflifetwinlake.org\/riveroflife\/our-beliefs\/\">OUR BASIC BIBLICAL BELIEFS<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/riveroflifetwinlake.org\/riveroflife\/are-you-good-enough-for-heaven\/\">HOW TO BECOME A CHRISTIAN<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Walsworth Lead Pastor As the Lead Pastor of River of Life, Matt started shepherding River of Life in June, 2025 following the retirement of Don Benedict, who planted the church in 2000. Matt and Kelsey&#8217;s Children Tad, Flynn, Lucey, Mya, and Madelynn PLAN YOUR FIRST VISIT | OUR BASIC BIBLICAL BELIEFS | HOW TO BECOME A CHRISTIAN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1263,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2006","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riveroflifetwinlake.org\/riveroflife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riveroflifetwinlake.org\/riveroflife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riveroflifetwinlake.org\/riveroflife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riveroflifetwinlake.org\/riveroflife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riveroflifetwinlake.org\/riveroflife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2006"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/riveroflifetwinlake.org\/riveroflife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3798,"href":"https:\/\/riveroflifetwinlake.org\/riveroflife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2006\/revisions\/3798"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riveroflifetwinlake.org\/riveroflife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riveroflifetwinlake.org\/riveroflife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}