{"id":69,"date":"2005-11-24T06:55:09","date_gmt":"2005-11-24T14:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/pantinghart\/?p=69"},"modified":"2007-07-22T08:30:44","modified_gmt":"2007-07-22T15:30:44","slug":"one-note-of-gratefulness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/2005\/one-note-of-gratefulness\/","title":{"rendered":"One Note of Gratefulness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anabaptists.org\/churches\/hopewell.html\" target=\"_new\">Hopewell Mennonite church<\/a> (Hubbard, Oregon) have been richly blessed with the same bishop since 1983.<\/p>\n<p>He was ordained from among us, so he is one of us. By God&#8217;s grace, he has led us with a shepherd&#8217;s heart, remembering well that the flock is not his own, but the Good Shepherd&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>His wife has served graciously and faithfully at his side.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rothscuriositycorner.com\/graphics\/dadmom.jpg\" width=325 height=285 alt=\"[James and Noreen Roth]\"\/><br \/>\n<font size=\"-1\"><b>James &amp; Noreen Roth<\/b><\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I need to be more generous in my thankfulness and commendation to them. However, I suppose it would seem inappropriate to use this forum since they are also my parents.<\/p>\n<p><b><font color=brown>&#8220;This is a true saying, if a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work&#8221;<\/font><\/b> (1 Timothy 3:1).<\/p>\n<p>Though he did not desire the office of bishop, the work is a good work, and he has been a faithful steward of it.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you, Dad (and Mom), and God bless you!<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We at Hopewell Mennonite church (Hubbard, Oregon) have been richly blessed with the same bishop since 1983. He was ordained from among us, so he is one of us. By God&#8217;s grace, he has led us with a shepherd&#8217;s heart, remembering well that the flock is not his own, but the Good Shepherd&#8217;s. His wife [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-69","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-1-timothy","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry","9":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJBV-17","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}