{"id":5373,"date":"2025-08-04T18:10:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T23:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newhopedanbury.org\/?page_id=5373"},"modified":"2026-04-10T09:50:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T14:50:05","slug":"our-pastor-elect","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/newhopedanbury.org\/?page_id=5373","title":{"rendered":"Our Pastor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newhopedanbury.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/updated-website-photo.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/newhopedanbury.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/updated-website-photo.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5392\" style=\"width:273px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newhopedanbury.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/updated-website-photo.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/newhopedanbury.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/updated-website-photo-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/newhopedanbury.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/updated-website-photo-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/newhopedanbury.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/updated-website-photo-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/newhopedanbury.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/updated-website-photo-54x54.jpeg 54w, https:\/\/newhopedanbury.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/updated-website-photo-600x600.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/newhopedanbury.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/updated-website-photo-100x100.jpeg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-white-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-1d63754120329cb4a114bcc4382d5a02\"><strong>Rev. Dr. Chris Williams<\/strong>, affectionately known as Pastor Chris, serves as the Senior Pastor of New Hope Baptist Church. A biblically rooted and purpose-driven leader, he is committed to cultivating spiritual depth, personal growth, and a strong sense of community within the church and beyond. Grounded in the Great Commission to \u201cgo therefore and make disciples,\u201d his ministry reflects a thoughtful blend of tradition and relevance, meeting the spiritual needs of today\u2019s families. He is the devoted husband of Lady Amar Williams and the proud father of their son, Amir.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rev. Dr. Chris Williams, affectionately known as Pastor Chris, serves as the Senior Pastor of New Hope Baptist Church. A biblically rooted and purpose-driven leader, he is committed to cultivating spiritual depth, personal growth, and a strong sense of community within the church and beyond. Grounded in the Great Commission to \u201cgo therefore and make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5373","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhopedanbury.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhopedanbury.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhopedanbury.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhopedanbury.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhopedanbury.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5373"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/newhopedanbury.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5559,"href":"https:\/\/newhopedanbury.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5373\/revisions\/5559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhopedanbury.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}