{"id":793,"date":"2024-12-06T15:14:47","date_gmt":"2024-12-06T15:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/upliftindy.org\/?p=793"},"modified":"2024-12-06T15:14:54","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T15:14:54","slug":"listen-to-jay-height-explain-how-shepherd-is-fighting-the-epidemic-of-loneliness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/upliftindy.org\/index.php\/2024\/12\/06\/listen-to-jay-height-explain-how-shepherd-is-fighting-the-epidemic-of-loneliness\/","title":{"rendered":"Listen to Jay Height explain how Shepherd is fighting the epidemic of loneliness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Inside Indiana Business President Gerry Dick recently hosted Jay Height for an in-depth conversation on the Business &amp; Beyond podcast about Shepherd Community Center\u2019s work to break the cycle of poverty in Indianapolis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the interview, Height, Shepherd\u2019s executive director for nearly 30 years, discussed the ministry\u2019s efforts to provide food, housing, health care, educational assistance and other services for neighbors on the near East side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As Height noted, the true work of Shepherd involves forging relationships to share God\u2019s love, combat isolation and provide hope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe epidemic that is ravaging our community is loneliness,\u201d Height told Dick. \u201cAnd we really, really want to make connections (with our neighbors).\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Listen to the conversation about Shepherd\u2019s initiatives here: <a href=\"https:\/\/iibbusinessandbeyond.podbean.com\/e\/jay-height-breaking-the-cycle-of-poverty\/\">https:\/\/iibbusinessandbeyond.podbean.com\/e\/jay-height-breaking-the-cycle-of-poverty\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inside Indiana Business President Gerry Dick recently hosted Jay Height for an in-depth conversation on the Business &amp; Beyond podcast about Shepherd Community Center\u2019s work to break the cycle of poverty in Indianapolis. In the interview, Height, Shepherd\u2019s executive director for nearly 30 years, discussed the ministry\u2019s efforts to provide food, housing, health care, educational [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":794,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/upliftindy.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/upliftindy.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/upliftindy.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upliftindy.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upliftindy.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/upliftindy.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upliftindy.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/upliftindy.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upliftindy.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upliftindy.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}