{"id":107,"date":"2026-03-21T00:21:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T00:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomjstone.com\/?page_id=1"},"modified":"2026-04-06T14:24:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T14:24:06","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tomjstone.com\/?page_id=107","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full has-custom-border wp-duotone-unset-1\" id=\"wp-block-themeisle-blocks-image-ef09e226\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-right:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/tomjstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pastor-photo.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-66\" style=\"border-style:none;border-width:0px;border-top-left-radius:100px;border-top-right-radius:100px;border-bottom-left-radius:100px;border-bottom-right-radius:100px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomjstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pastor-photo.jpg 200w, https:\/\/tomjstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pastor-photo-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Pastor Tom Stone<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>MAPM, Andrews University<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/tomjstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/audio-testimony.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ve pastored for over a decade, preached hundreds of sermons, and grew my last church by over 150% average attendance in three years. This is the exact system I still use every week \u2014 refined through real ministry, not theory. I know what it\u2019s like to be buried in prep work while the rest of ministry suffers. This blueprint gave me my time back without sacrificing sermon quality. In fact, my preaching got better!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor Tom Stone MAPM, Andrews University I\u2019ve pastored for over a decade, preached hundreds of sermons, and grew my last church by over 150% average attendance in three years. This is the exact system I still use every week \u2014 refined through real ministry, not theory. I know what it\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":213,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-107","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomjstone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomjstone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomjstone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomjstone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomjstone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tomjstone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333,"href":"https:\/\/tomjstone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/107\/revisions\/333"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomjstone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomjstone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}