{"id":119,"date":"2018-10-11T05:32:46","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T05:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.buffalomountainchurch.org\/?page_id=119"},"modified":"2018-10-11T06:42:56","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T06:42:56","slug":"slate-mountain-presbyterian","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.buffalomountainchurch.org\/index.php\/childress-rock-churches\/slate-mountain-presbyterian\/","title":{"rendered":"Slate Mountain Presbyterian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Founded in 1932,\u00a0<strong>Slate Mountain Presbyterian Church and Cemetery<\/strong>\u00a0are prominently sited at Rock Castle Gap in Floyd County, at about 3,200 feet above sea level. The church began as a mission of Buffalo Mountain Church around 1930 when Rev. Childress began holding services and Sunday school at a one-room school in the Slate community, five miles southeast of Buffalo Mountain Church. Soon thereafter, community members began excavating sand from Burks Fork for delivery at the church site.<\/p>\n<p>Beautiful crystal quartz rocks were brought from family farms and were placed on both sides of the Slate Mountain Church front entrance.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to its unusually beautiful setting, the Slate Mountain Church is perhaps most notable for and its lovely stained-glass windows.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>~\u00a0Michael Pulice, DHR architectural historian, Western Region Preservation Office.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Slate Mountain Presbyterian Church<br \/>\n239 Rock Church Road<br \/>\nMeadows of Dan, VA 24120<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pg\/Slate-Mountain-Evangelical-Presbyterian-Church-318851824794769\/about\/?tab=page_info\">website<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Founded in 1932,\u00a0Slate Mountain Presbyterian Church and Cemetery\u00a0are prominently sited at Rock Castle Gap in Floyd County, at about 3,200 feet above sea level. The church began as a mission of Buffalo Mountain Church around 1930 when Rev. Childress began holding services and Sunday school at a one-room school in the Slate community, five miles &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.buffalomountainchurch.org\/index.php\/childress-rock-churches\/slate-mountain-presbyterian\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Slate Mountain Presbyterian&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121,"parent":97,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-119","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.buffalomountainchurch.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.buffalomountainchurch.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.buffalomountainchurch.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.buffalomountainchurch.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.buffalomountainchurch.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.buffalomountainchurch.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136,"href":"http:\/\/www.buffalomountainchurch.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/119\/revisions\/136"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.buffalomountainchurch.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/97"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.buffalomountainchurch.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.buffalomountainchurch.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}