{"id":45633,"date":"2014-08-21T22:35:21","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T22:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bishop_mark_lawrences_letter_to_the_diocese_of_south_carolina\/"},"modified":"2014-08-21T22:35:21","modified_gmt":"2014-08-21T22:35:21","slug":"bishop_mark_lawrences_letter_to_the_diocese_of_south_carolina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45633","title":{"rendered":"Bishop Mark Lawrence&#39;s Letter to the Diocese of South Carolina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[color=red]This and the following entry are sticky.  Look for new entries below.[\/color]<\/p>\n<p>Global South Welcomes Diocese of South Carolina <\/p>\n<p>My Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ Jesus<\/p>\n<p>As you will recall the 223rd Diocesan Convention of the Diocese of South Carolina meeting at Christ Church in Mt. Pleasant on March 14-15, 2014 unanimously accepted the offer of the Global South Primates Steering Committee for Provisional Primatial Oversight.<\/p>\n<p>Now this morning we receive with gratitude <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diosc.com\/sys\/images\/documents\/global_south_8_21_14_sc.pdf\">this letter from the Global South Primatial Steering Committee<\/a>.  It is their acceptance of our request for this gracious relationship.  I trust you will be heartened as I have been by their welcome of us \u201c\u201d\u00a6 as an active and faithful member within the Global South of the Anglican Communion, until such time as a permanent primatial affiliation can be found.\u201d\u009d  It is my joy to share it with you.<\/p>\n<p>Faithfully yours in Christ,<\/p>\n<p>+Mark Lawrence<\/p>\n<p>The Right Reverend Mark Joseph Lawrence<br \/>\nXIV Bishop of South Carolina<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.diosc.com\/sys\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;view=frontpage&#038;Itemid=1\">Read it all<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[color=red]This and the following entry are sticky. Look for new entries below.[\/color] Global South Welcomes Diocese of South Carolina My Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ Jesus As you will recall the 223rd Diocesan Convention of the Diocese of South<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45633\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":832,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-south-carolina"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/832"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}