{"id":56597,"date":"2016-12-06T20:30:59","date_gmt":"2016-12-06T20:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/nepal_a_historic_and_memorable_episcopal_visit_by_bp_rennis_ponniah_and_abp\/"},"modified":"2016-12-06T20:30:59","modified_gmt":"2016-12-06T20:30:59","slug":"nepal_a_historic_and_memorable_episcopal_visit_by_bp_rennis_ponniah_and_abp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=56597","title":{"rendered":"Nepal: A Historic and Memorable Episcopal Visit by Bp Rennis Ponniah and Abp Foley Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Revd Lewis Lew, Dean of Nepal<br \/>..It was heartwarming to see how the two Bishops, even though separated by hundreds of miles, were of one mind and were so ready to serve one another.<\/p>\n<p>The Confirmation Service was held in Maranatha Church, which is situated in a slump area in Pokhara City (Western Nepal). A total of 317 confirmands packed the worship hall. This was a historic moment for the Anglican Church in Nepal as these confirmands were its first batch of Anglican members from the Western part of Nepal to be confirmed. As we obey the Lord&#8217;s call for us to focus our work in the western part of the country, this group of newly confirmed members were reminded that they will be the ones sent to reach the lost, just as the Lord has commissioned us to go and make disciples of all nations (Matt 28:19-20).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglican.org.sg\/index.php\/news\/item\/deanery_of_nepal_update_december_2016\">Read it all<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Revd Lewis Lew, Dean of Nepal..It was heartwarming to see how the two Bishops, even though separated by hundreds of miles, were of one mind and were so ready to serve one another. The Confirmation Service was held in<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=56597\">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":[36,74,384],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-anglican-provinces","category-the-anglican-church-in-south-east-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56597","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=56597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}