{"id":946,"date":"2026-02-22T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/upliftindy.org\/?p=946"},"modified":"2026-02-12T23:53:30","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T23:53:30","slug":"community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/upliftindy.org\/index.php\/2026\/02\/22\/community\/","title":{"rendered":"We were made to Connect"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cGrowing up, we lived life in community, but then things changed.<\/em>\u201d \u2013 Jay Height<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What is community, and why does it matter? Have we experienced the death of the community? Is there a way for us to transform the epidemic of loneliness plaguing our communities into one full of hope and connection?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Join Executive Director as he looks back on his life, and the role community has played in his life personally and in the lives of those we serve at Shepherd Community Center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Message 2   Community\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Up_YID92efE?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Just like Lego bricks, we were made to connect.<\/strong> How can you connect through compassion, care, and intentionality in the lives of those who are hurting all around you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cGrowing up, we lived life in community, but then things changed.\u201d \u2013 Jay Height What is community, and why does it matter? Have we experienced the death of the community? Is there a way for us to transform the epidemic of loneliness plaguing our communities into one full of hope and connection? Join Executive Director [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"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":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-columns-by-jay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/upliftindy.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upliftindy.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/upliftindy.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/upliftindy.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upliftindy.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upliftindy.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}