{"id":21,"date":"2012-07-25T14:50:33","date_gmt":"2012-07-25T04:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emeraldunitingchurch.org.au\/?page_id=21"},"modified":"2014-04-14T08:38:34","modified_gmt":"2014-04-13T22:38:34","slug":"gift-of-a-church-a-mix-of-mission-and-service","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.emeraldunitingchurch.org.au\/?page_id=21","title":{"rendered":"Gift of a Church &#8211; a mix of mission and service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2007, Rev Russell Reynoldson, Minister of the Emerald-Fernlees Congregation, and Rev Kaye Ronalds, Presbytery Minister led a\u00a0Service of Closure at the Fernlees Uniting Church.<\/p>\n<p>During the service a history of the building and congregation was shared; statements of support from the Presbytery of Central Queensland were offered; and the gathered congregation shared in a liturgy of closure, which prepared the congregation to enter into new and different experiences of worship and fellowship. The Church building entered a new phase of its life as a family home and residence.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.emeraldunitingchurch.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/DSCF14455.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-28 aligncenter\" title=\"DSCF14455\" alt=\"Closing 3\" src=\"https:\/\/www.emeraldunitingchurch.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/DSCF14455-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.emeraldunitingchurch.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/DSCF14455-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.emeraldunitingchurch.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/DSCF14455-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.emeraldunitingchurch.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/DSCF14444.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-27\" title=\"DSCF14444\" alt=\"Closing 2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.emeraldunitingchurch.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/DSCF14444-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.emeraldunitingchurch.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/DSCF14444-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.emeraldunitingchurch.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/DSCF14444-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.emeraldunitingchurch.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/DSCF14211.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-26 alignright\" title=\"DSCF14211\" alt=\"Closing\" src=\"https:\/\/www.emeraldunitingchurch.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/DSCF14211-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.emeraldunitingchurch.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/DSCF14211-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.emeraldunitingchurch.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/DSCF14211-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2007, Rev Russell Reynoldson, Minister of the Emerald-Fernlees Congregation, and Rev Kaye Ronalds, Presbytery Minister led a\u00a0Service of Closure at the Fernlees Uniting Church. During the service a history of the building and congregation was shared; statements of support &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.emeraldunitingchurch.org.au\/?page_id=21\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-21","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emeraldunitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emeraldunitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emeraldunitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emeraldunitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emeraldunitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.emeraldunitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161,"href":"https:\/\/www.emeraldunitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21\/revisions\/161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emeraldunitingchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}