{"id":3056,"date":"2020-09-19T15:24:21","date_gmt":"2020-09-19T19:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spriggsroad.org\/SRPCwp\/?page_id=3056"},"modified":"2021-09-28T20:12:14","modified_gmt":"2021-09-29T00:12:14","slug":"associate-pastor-matteson-bowles","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.spriggsroad.org\/SRPCwp\/discovering\/our-leadership\/our-pastor\/associate-pastor-matteson-bowles\/","title":{"rendered":"Associate Pastor: Matteson Bowles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-thumbnail is-style-rounded\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.spriggsroad.org\/SRPCwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/20190414_123857-scaled-e1585339926396-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2455\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.spriggsroad.org\/SRPCwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/20190414_123857-scaled-e1585339926396-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.spriggsroad.org\/SRPCwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/20190414_123857-scaled-e1585339926396-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.spriggsroad.org\/SRPCwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/20190414_123857-scaled-e1585339926396-720x720.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.spriggsroad.org\/SRPCwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/20190414_123857-scaled-e1585339926396-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.spriggsroad.org\/SRPCwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/20190414_123857-scaled-e1585339926396-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.spriggsroad.org\/SRPCwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/20190414_123857-scaled-e1585339926396-1200x1200.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.spriggsroad.org\/SRPCwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/20190414_123857-scaled-e1585339926396.jpg 1990w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 85vw, 150px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Assistant Pastor\u00a0Matt\u00a0Bowles, a one-time an anthropology major with an archaeology emphasis at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, once spent three months on an archaeology dig in the Middle East.\u00a0Matt\u00a0has engaged his anthropological and historical interests through M.Div studies at Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando, Florida and almost two decades of pastoral ministry, primarily in his native Knoxville, Tennessee and more recently in Ocala, Florida, where he has overseen student ministry and spearheaded the mission committee in his role as an Associate Pastor. From there,\u00a0Matt\u00a0served as the campus minister for Reformed University Fellowship International (RUF-I) at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA from 2015 to 2018.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Matt\u00a0has served as Assistant Pastor at Spriggs Road since 2018.\u00a0Matt\u00a0is married to Amy, who he first met on a blind date, and they have three daughters and one son.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assistant Pastor\u00a0Matt\u00a0Bowles, a one-time an anthropology major with an archaeology emphasis at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, once spent three months on an archaeology dig in the Middle East.\u00a0Matt\u00a0has engaged his anthropological and historical interests through M.Div studies at Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando, Florida and almost two decades of pastoral ministry, primarily in his native &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spriggsroad.org\/SRPCwp\/discovering\/our-leadership\/our-pastor\/associate-pastor-matteson-bowles\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Associate Pastor: Matteson Bowles&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":15,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3056","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spriggsroad.org\/SRPCwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spriggsroad.org\/SRPCwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spriggsroad.org\/SRPCwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spriggsroad.org\/SRPCwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spriggsroad.org\/SRPCwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3056"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.spriggsroad.org\/SRPCwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3511,"href":"https:\/\/www.spriggsroad.org\/SRPCwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3056\/revisions\/3511"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spriggsroad.org\/SRPCwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spriggsroad.org\/SRPCwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}