{"id":2584,"date":"2018-11-30T10:48:18","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T00:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/?p=2584"},"modified":"2018-12-02T17:25:15","modified_gmt":"2018-12-02T07:25:15","slug":"advent-happenings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/?p=2584","title":{"rendered":"Advent Happenings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Christmas-2018-e1543735496424.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2589\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Christmas-2018-e1543735496424-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Christmas-2018-e1543735496424-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Christmas-2018-e1543735496424-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Christmas-2018-e1543735496424-113x150.jpg 113w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>The church\u2019s liturgical year ended last Sunday with the feast of \u201c Christ the King\u201d and was celebrated with\u00a0majestic royal blue banner emblazoned with a golden crown hanging in the sanctuary, and the cutting and sharing of a large birthday cake .<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now we have the season of Advent, when during the four weeks leading to Christmas we are encouraged to take time in examining the significance of the birth of Jesus.\u00a0Revds Peter and Denis will be leading Advent studies on Mondays at 6.00 pm (BYO tea) and Wednesdays after the 10:00 am communion service. (details below) Households are always very busy with preparations for Christmas, but the reason for the season should be top of the list for times of reflection. All welcome.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Again this year we are having a Nativity Scene display in the Foyer so bring along any Nativity Scenes you would like to share with us this week.\u00a0It has been a tradition of interest to the community and enjoyed through the window wall also when the church is closed.<\/p>\n<p>(Above contributed by Joan Mellahn)<\/p>\n<p>This years Advent studies are up and running in\u00a0three time slots:<\/p>\n<p>Mondays 6pm in the Foyer 46 Splatt St (BYO Tea) Nov 26 to Dec 17<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday 11am in the Foyer 46 Splatt St &#8211; Nov 28 to Dec 19<\/p>\n<p>At Nyah West &#8211; Wednesdays 3:30pm at Nyah West\u00a0<strong>Uniting Church<\/strong> (33 Lloyd St) &#8211; Nov 28 to Dec 19<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Christmas-2018-e1543735496424.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2589\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Christmas-2018-e1543735496424-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Christmas-2018-e1543735496424-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Christmas-2018-e1543735496424-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Christmas-2018-e1543735496424-113x150.jpg 113w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>The church\u2019s liturgical year ended last Sunday with the feast of \u201c Christ the King\u201d and was celebrated with\u00a0majestic royal blue banner emblazoned with a golden  \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/?p=2584\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3Zkbl-FG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2584"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2590,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2584\/revisions\/2590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}