{"id":76723,"date":"2023-07-02T21:12:24","date_gmt":"2023-07-02T21:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journalist101.com\/?p=76723"},"modified":"2023-07-02T21:12:24","modified_gmt":"2023-07-02T21:12:24","slug":"pastor-dies-hours-after-preaching-at-a-burial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journalist101.com\/2023\/07\/02\/pastor-dies-hours-after-preaching-at-a-burial\/","title":{"rendered":"Pastor Dies Hours After Preaching At A Burial"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Lead Pastor of The Evening Church in Uyo, Akwa Ibom, Pastor Runcie Mike, is dead.<\/p>\n

He died on Saturday 1st July few hours after preaching at burial service of a church member who was buried on Friday.<\/p>\n

Before the burial he posted on his wall:
\n\u201d I don\u2019t even know how to process the emotions since i heard of your demise after the surgery we spoke about, then to be told that i was going to be the one officiating the funeral is too hard for me to bear as this will be the first time i will be officiating a funeral in my entire life. I hope it goes smooth cuz this will be too triggering.\u201d Travel in the light Dear Eka till we meet again across the narrow bridge.\u201d<\/p>\n

During the burial services on Friday, he was emotional and weeping like a baby
\nbecause the deceased was very close to him and few hours after the burial he was said to be dead.<\/p>\n

When the news broke, many of the church members labelled it fake news as it was extremely sudden.<\/p>\n

The leadership of the church later confirmed the sad development.<\/p>\n

According to the church, Pastor Mike who officiated a burial service on Friday died on Saturday, 1st of July, 2023.<\/p>\n

He was said to have died after a brief sickness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Lead Pastor of The Evening Church in Uyo, Akwa Ibom, Pastor Runcie Mike, is dead. He died on Saturday 1st July few hours after preaching at burial service of a church member who was buried on Friday. Before the burial he posted on his wall: \u201d I don\u2019t even know how to process the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76724,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-76723","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/journalist101.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/17403251_runciemike_jpeg709fefc0077cc25d6b779f82c5a2a20b.jpeg?fit=715%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4LVjE-jXt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journalist101.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journalist101.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journalist101.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journalist101.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journalist101.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journalist101.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76725,"href":"https:\/\/journalist101.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76723\/revisions\/76725"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journalist101.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journalist101.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journalist101.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journalist101.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}