{"id":689,"date":"2009-05-31T17:57:20","date_gmt":"2009-05-31T21:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/?p=689"},"modified":"2009-06-01T18:51:09","modified_gmt":"2009-06-01T22:51:09","slug":"ian-and-ruthie-norths-commissioning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/?p=689","title":{"rendered":"Ian and Ruthie North&#8217;s Commissioning!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Had a great morning today at Clarkston International Bible Church!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/551175075_WEpNR-M.jpg\" alt=\"c\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/551175300_HcwWQ-M.jpg\" alt=\"cc\" \/><br \/>\nI took my parents and family to celebrate the North&#8217;s commissioning!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/551175612_CQwGb-M.jpg\" alt=\"a\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/551177000_UJfVD-M.jpg\" alt=\"a\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It was a wonderful time.\u00a0 Ian and Ruthie made a great presentation on their ministry and Pastor Phil Kitchin gave an inspired sermon on what it means to be a missionary&#8212;follow the model of Christ!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/551175489_ExTzW-M.jpg\" alt=\"i\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/551175880_cdNXs-M.jpg\" alt=\"p\" \/><br \/>\nI made a short presentation at the end of the service and presented them with their certificates from the North American Mission Board.\u00a0 Very exciting stuff!<br \/>\n<object width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/w6nzo2eXlG4&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/w6nzo2eXlG4&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/551176663_dM9fG-M.jpg\" alt=\"g\" \/><br \/>\nWe had lunch together at Piccadilly along with Kathy&#8217;s brother Bill and his friend Deborah and our nephew Jason.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/551176887_XzDs2-M.jpg\" alt=\"k\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Also got to see good friends from FBC Mountain Park, the Cox and Mayfields! Awesome!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/551179072_chKEv-M.jpg\" alt=\"d\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whirlwindmissions.smugmug.com\/photos\/551179013_aFGnp-M.jpg\" alt=\"t\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Came home and soaked up some rays and worked out on weights.<\/p>\n<p>My cable\/internet isn&#8217;t working well.\u00a0 Fortunately, my wifi picks up a neighbor&#8217;s signal so I have some ability to work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Had a great morning today at Clarkston International Bible Church! I took my parents and family to celebrate the North&#8217;s commissioning! It was a wonderful time.\u00a0 Ian and Ruthie made a great presentation on their ministry and Pastor Phil Kitchin gave an inspired sermon on what it means to be a missionary&#8212;follow the model of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whirlwindmissions.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}