{"id":4851,"date":"2017-10-13T10:46:54","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T14:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/?p=4851"},"modified":"2017-10-24T14:20:54","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T18:20:54","slug":"homecoming-centennial-chapel-one-life-john-and-michele-sharp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/2017\/10\/13\/homecoming-centennial-chapel-one-life-john-and-michele-sharp\/","title":{"rendered":"Homecoming Centennial Chapel &#8211; &#8220;Changing the world One Life at a Time&#8221; &#8211; John and Michele Sharp"},"content":{"rendered":"<audio controls src=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/media\/podcasts\/10.13.17--JohnAndMichelleSharpChapel.mp3\">Your browser does not support the audio element.<\/audio>\n<p><strong>Changing the World One Life at a Time<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>John and Michele Sharp share reflections from the life and calling of their son, <a href=\"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2017\/07\/emu-honor-peacebuilder-michael-j-sharp-05-homecoming-family-weekend\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Michael J. (M.J.) Sharp<\/a>, recipient of the 2017 91΄σΙρ Life Service Award, who was killed while on a United Nations peacemaking mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo in March 2017.<\/p>\n<p><strong>John Sharp<\/strong> teaches history and Bible at Hesston College, is a storyteller and author. Among his books: <em>A School on the Prairie: A Centennial History of Hesston College<\/em>, <em>My Calling to Fulfill: the Orie O. Miller Story<\/em>, and most recently, <em>The Bible as Story: An Introduction to Biblical Literature<\/em>, written with colleagues Marion Bontrager and Michele Hershberger.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Michele Miller Sharp<\/strong> launched her career in education and moved into the medical field working in family practice for the past 20 years as a physician assistant and more recently in clinic administration\u00a0as\u00a0Director of Clinical Excellence.<\/p>\n<p>John and Michele are the parents of two married daughters, Erin &amp; Laura and a son, MJ, as well as\u00a0the grandparents of three absolutely adorable grandchildren, Oscar, Lucy &amp; Jesse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"emu-podcast-embed\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/media\/podcasts\/10.13.17--JohnAndMichelleSharpChapel.mp3\">Your browser does not support the audio element.<\/audio><\/div><p>Changing the World One Life at a Time John and Michele Sharp share reflections from the life and calling of their son, Michael J. (M.J.) Sharp, recipient of the 2017 91΄σΙρ Life Service Award, who was killed while on a United Nations peacemaking mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo in March 2017. John Sharp....<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4967,60,409],"tags":[4992,4692,4755,4991,4931],"class_list":["post-4851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-centennial","category-homecoming","category-chapel","tag-centennial","tag-homecoming","tag-john-sharp","tag-michele-sharp","tag-mj-sharp","has-post-thumbnail","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4851"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4860,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4851\/revisions\/4860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}