{"id":3172,"date":"2022-08-07T12:52:06","date_gmt":"2022-08-07T17:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/?p=3172"},"modified":"2022-08-10T13:36:05","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T18:36:05","slug":"sunday-7-august-2022-baptisms-at-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/?p=3172","title":{"rendered":"Sunday 7 August 2022 \u2013 Baptisms at Church"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This morning I discovered that Allan (or Joyce) had somehow recovered the Wednesday blog with photos that was ‘erased’ last night. Don’t know how they did that, but are so thankful they administer the mcguireclan.org webpages! <\/p>\n\n\n

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Attendance was higher this week<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

The service today at the Evangelical Bible Church started right at 9am and was very special today. At one point, during the singing of a hymn, the words on the overhead screen were incorrect and the signing stopped. Several men jumped up, went to a side room, grabbed stacks of hymnbooks and quickly passed them out. Singing of the hymn restarted shortly and the service continued as if nothing had happened! <\/p>\n\n\n

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Even the back of the sanctuary was a little fuller<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Pastor Deon Philips spoke on Ephesians 2:1-9 and titled his message, \u201cOur appreciation for what we have and who we are in Christ will influence the way we live.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

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The four on the right are daughter, mother, daughter and son<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

There were five candidates for baptism and, after his message, each one stood before the church and gave their testimony. After that each was baptized.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The person on the right is a converted Pakistani who has just received his theological degree in apologetics. He assisted with the baptisms, including his oldest daughter in this photo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Following the baptisms, communion was observed as well. The service ended just after 11:30am.

After church, we stopped by Pick N Pay to pick up a few supplies for the week. After being here for five weeks, the list is getting shorter each week. We also picked up a sub sandwich, a chicken wrap and some salad for lunch.

In the afternoon, I managed to get our blogs up-to-date. Virginia worked on sewing a table cloth for an old table on the screened back verandah. Since there was no manual with the sewing machine (on loan from Lorraine) we looked on line to see how to thread it and wind a bobbin correctly. Because of the poor light available, Virginia asked me to thread the machine and needle for her to get started.
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Hope to turn in early tonight to start the new workweek tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This morning I discovered that Allan (or Joyce) had somehow recovered the Wednesday blog with photos that was ‘erased’ last night. Don’t know how they did that, but are so thankful they administer the mcguireclan.org webpages! The service today at the Evangelical Bible Church started right at 9am and was very special today. At one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eswatini-2022"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3172"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3208,"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3172\/revisions\/3208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}