{"id":925,"date":"2016-07-28T16:39:45","date_gmt":"2016-07-28T16:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freedom.edu\/?page_id=925"},"modified":"2016-07-28T17:11:36","modified_gmt":"2016-07-28T17:11:36","slug":"living-waters-christian-education-center-our-history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.freedom.edu\/?page_id=925","title":{"rendered":"Living Waters CEC &#8211; Our History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Living Waters Christian Education Center, Inc.<\/strong> was conceived in <strong>June 1990<\/strong> in Hampton, Virginia.\u00a0 While in attendance at the Annual Minister&#8217;s Conference, the anointing of the Holy Spirit moved upon Dr. Edward D. Roberts to teach the Bible.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Roberts returned to New Jersey with an urgency to teach the lessons of the Bible.\u00a0 After receiving permission from his pastor, the late <strong>Bishop John H. Roberts<\/strong>, he taught his first lesson from the book of <strong>Romans, Chapter 8<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In <strong>June 1999<\/strong>, Living Waters Christian Education Center, Inc. became fully accredited to teach certificate and degree curriculum in Christian Education.<\/p>\n<p>Living Waters Christian Education Center, Inc. celebrated its first annual commencement exercise for <strong>sixteen (16) graduates<\/strong> on <strong>Sunday, June 11, 2000<\/strong> at <strong>Eastern Bible Institute in Irvington, New Jersey<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Roberts and the Living Waters&#8217; family now celebrate their partnership with <strong>Freedom Bible College &amp; Seminary<\/strong>!\u00a0 And they look forward to the future semesters and all of the accomplishments that they will bring.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.freedom.edu\/?page_id=909\">Return to Living Waters CEC Home Page<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Living Waters Christian Education Center, Inc. was conceived in June 1990 in Hampton, Virginia.\u00a0 While in attendance at the Annual Minister&#8217;s Conference, the anointing of the Holy Spirit moved upon Dr. Edward D. Roberts to teach the Bible. Dr. Roberts <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freedom.edu\/?page_id=925\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedom.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/925"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedom.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedom.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedom.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedom.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=925"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedom.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":943,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedom.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/925\/revisions\/943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedom.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}