{"id":25437,"date":"2013-09-17T00:30:32","date_gmt":"2013-09-17T03:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=25437"},"modified":"2016-11-26T00:48:08","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T03:48:08","slug":"us-military-christian-preschool-moves-off-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/17\/us-military-christian-preschool-moves-off-post\/","title":{"rendered":"US Military Christian Preschool Moves Off Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mustard Seed preschool program had been run at the US Army garrison at Yongsan, South Korea, for more than 30 years.\u00a0 Apparently, someone applied to become director of the preschool but was rejected &#8212; so they <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/16\/us-army-chapel-christian-preschool-may-be-shuttered\/\">filed an anonymous\u00a0complaint<\/a> that triggered an investigation of the entire program.<\/p>\n<p>Initially, the Army was <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/22\/yongsan-chapel-preschool-to-close-after-complaint\/\">simply going to shut it down<\/a>, but it relented when parents voiced their concerns over the hardship a sudden closure would cause.\u00a0 The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sibckorea.org\/index.php\/mustard-seed\/\">Mustard Seed school<\/a> has now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/pacific\/yongsan-christian-preschool-moves-to-off-base-church-1.240175\">moved off post<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sibckorea.org\/\">Seoul International Baptist Church<\/a>, where it can still serve US troops and civilians without military involvement.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe decided to see if it would work, and it worked beautifully,\u201d said Jon Goldsmith, executive director of the Seoul International Baptist Church, which now operates the Mustard Seed Preschool. \u201cIt\u2019s not really out of context for us because we have a large military presence at our church, and we were the closest church to the base, with a sizeable representation from the base.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-share=\"true\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-size=\"small\" data-action=\"like\" data-layout=\"standard\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>ADVERTISEMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><!-- blogpost --><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-slot=\"2728423835\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6450825356098669\"><\/ins><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mustard Seed preschool program had been run at the US Army garrison at Yongsan, South Korea, for more than 30 years.\u00a0 Apparently, someone applied to become director of the preschool but was rejected &#8212; so they filed an anonymous\u00a0complaint that triggered an investigation of the entire program. Initially, the Army was simply going to shut it down, but it [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[38,1566,5284,96,4289,89,2,3819,3818,10,4280,3820],"class_list":["post-25437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-chapel","tag-chapel-tithes-and-offerings","tag-chaplain","tag-christian","tag-jon-goldsmith","tag-korea","tag-military","tag-mustard-seed","tag-preschool","tag-religion","tag-seoul-international-baptist-church","tag-yongsan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}