{"id":1860,"date":"2025-02-16T10:49:04","date_gmt":"2025-02-16T15:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northendchurch.com\/?page_id=1860"},"modified":"2025-02-16T10:49:05","modified_gmt":"2025-02-16T15:49:05","slug":"roscoe-ross-swindler","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.northendchurch.com\/?page_id=1860","title":{"rendered":"Roscoe \u201cRoss\u201d Swindler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Served North End &#8211; 1957-1960<\/p>\n<p>Ross was born in 1910 in Charleston, WV. He was baptized at age 24<br \/>\nand preached his first sermon at the Dunbar Church of Christ. He mar<br \/>\nried Verla two years later. He then went on to graduate from Freed<br \/>\nHardeman College. Before coming to North End, he was the located<br \/>\npreacher in South Charleston, Hamlin, St. Albans, Camden Ave., and<br \/>\nGrand Central. He helped establish the Ravenswood congregation. He<br \/>\ncame back for meetings in the 60\u2019s and 70\u2019s. One meeting had 22 re<br \/>\nsponses.  He later preached in Missouri and Louisiana, finally retiring in<br \/>\nFlorida. He passed away in 1991. Ross was an encourager and a faith<br \/>\nful person. (I remember Ross, who baptized me, liked to joke that he<br \/>\ndisagreed with the apostle Paul who said not to associate with the<br \/>\ngreedy, idolaters, slanders, drunkards or a SWINDLER.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Served North End &#8211; 1957-1960 Ross was born in 1910 in Charleston, WV. He was baptized at age 24 and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.northendchurch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1860"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.northendchurch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.northendchurch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.northendchurch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.northendchurch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.northendchurch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1861,"href":"http:\/\/www.northendchurch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1860\/revisions\/1861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.northendchurch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}