{"id":51,"date":"2009-04-09T01:53:26","date_gmt":"2009-04-08T14:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/?p=51"},"modified":"2009-04-09T01:53:26","modified_gmt":"2009-04-08T14:53:26","slug":"150th-anniversary-celebration-at-deloraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2009\/04\/09\/150th-anniversary-celebration-at-deloraine\/","title":{"rendered":"150th Anniversary Celebration at Deloraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Under the banner, &#8220;Into the Future: Building for eternity following the way of Christ&#8221; the Anglican Parish of St Mark&#8217;s Deloraine celebrated its 150th Birthday, 1859 &#8211; 2009, on 28 March. It was a great weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The faithful lives and ministries of men and women, boys and girls, was remembered with gratitude and affection through worship, personal testimonies, a magnificent historical display and a beautiful specially produced A3 sized magazine &#8216;Saint Mark&#8217;s Times 1803-2009&#8217;. Fantastic! Congratulations to all concerned. We also prayed God\u2019s blessings through the beautiful new rectory and we pray for a rector to lead the parish into the next 150 years.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A precious memory of Joyce Blazely\u2019s: \u201cGrace is the undeserved and unearned presence of God in our lives\u201d. This was Bishop Blackwood\u2019s reply to her question, \u201cWhat do we mean by grace?\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Also, two parishioners, a married couple, remembering kneeling together to pray a commitment asking Jesus to come into their lives, in front of the TV broadcast of the Billy Graham crusade.\u00a0 Praise the Lord!<\/li>\n<li>The history reminded us that the Parish&#8217;s purpose was to proclaim the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.<\/li>\n<li>Knowing laughter greeted a marvelous recollection of an eminent layman who comforted a rector struggling with criticism from parishioners upset at changes being introduced, with these words, &#8220;The good Lord couldn&#8217;t please everybody. You&#8217;ve got no hope!&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Carlyle shared, &#8220;Bishop Blackwood introduced me to Christ.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>As the current President of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (SPCK) Australia, I was delighted to discover that SPCK supplied the first Prayer Book to the Parish.<\/li>\n<li>The family links through the generations were of real encouragement for us to follow Jesus and to keep on following Jesus.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At worship on Sunday we asked that as St Mark&#8217;s Deloraine moved &#8220;Into the Future&#8221;, the opening words of The Gospel According to Mark would continue to be the Parish&#8217;s words and life in their community: The beginning of the good news of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.<\/p>\n<p>May it be so in the transforming love of the Holy Spirit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under the banner, &#8220;Into the Future: Building for eternity following the way of Christ&#8221; the Anglican Parish of St Mark&#8217;s Deloraine celebrated its 150th Birthday, 1859 &#8211; 2009, on 28 March. It was a great weekend. The faithful lives and &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2009\/04\/09\/150th-anniversary-celebration-at-deloraine\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions\/58"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}