{"id":483,"date":"2014-07-13T20:16:43","date_gmt":"2014-07-13T10:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/?p=483"},"modified":"2014-07-14T14:51:03","modified_gmt":"2014-07-14T04:51:03","slug":"confirmation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/?p=483","title":{"rendered":"Confirmation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Kyren1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-484 alignleft\" alt=\"Kyren1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Kyren1-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Kyren1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Kyren1-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Kyren1-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Kyren1.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>On a mid July Sunday morning when the grass was white with frost, and the grey nomads had already headed to warmer parts for winter, we had reason to celebrate at Christ Church Swan Hill;\u00a0 Kyren Myers was being confirmed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Kyren2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-485 alignright\" alt=\"Kyren2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Kyren2-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Kyren2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Kyren2-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Kyren2-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Kyren2.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>This is no mean feat for the young father of a lively toddler.\u00a0 Bishop Andrew Curnow spoke about the service of confirmation being like a seed of hope that is planted and that the resulting growth is not usually instant.\u00a0 It takes time, yet slowly but surely good growth is seen in the years ahead. We pray that this will be so for Kyren; that the step he has taken, and the work he has put into the preparation, will bear a fruitful harvest.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Kyren3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-486 alignleft\" alt=\"Kyren3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Kyren3-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Kyren3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Kyren3-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Kyren3-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Kyren3.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>For the occasion Bishop Andrew wore a chasuble he has rarely worn since he received it as a gift from the parish of West Coberg, 40 years ago when he was assistant Priest there. It was particularly fitting for the occasion, showing the farmer from the Gospel reading of the day; Jesus&#8217; parable of the wheat seeds falling on the stony soil and the good soil.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of th<a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Kyren4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-487 alignright\" alt=\"Kyren4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Kyren4-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Kyren4-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Kyren4-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Kyren4-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Kyren4.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>e service Kayden helped his dad to cut the celebration cake ready for morning tea.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Kyren1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-484 alignleft\" alt=\"Kyren1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Kyren1-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Kyren1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Kyren1-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Kyren1-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Kyren1.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>On a mid July Sunday morning when the grass was white with frost, and the grey nomads had already headed to warmer parts for winter, we  \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/?p=483\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"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-483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3Zkbl-7N","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483","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\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=483"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":491,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions\/491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicanswanhill.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}