{"id":21351,"date":"2018-10-14T21:33:21","date_gmt":"2018-10-14T20:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=21351"},"modified":"2018-10-14T21:33:21","modified_gmt":"2018-10-14T20:33:21","slug":"joint-harvest-and-parade-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/?p=21351","title":{"rendered":"Joint Harvest and Parade Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/18101403.jpg\" alt=\"Joint Harvest and Parade Service\" \/><br \/>\nAbingdon Baptist Church (ABC) are on their travels while their church building is being revamped. Most Sundays they meet at Carswell School but on one Sunday a month they join with Trinity. This morning was such a Sunday and coincided with the Harvest service and Parade Service. <\/p>\n<p>Donations to the harvest this year go to Asylum Welcome (for Trinity) and The Abingdon Food Bank (for ABC).<br \/>\n <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/18101404.jpg\" alt=\"Joint Harvest and Parade Service\" \/><br \/>\nThere were also some excellent flower displays all round the church done by people from Trinity and ABC.<br \/>\n <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/18101408.jpg\" alt=\"Joint Harvest and Parade Service\" \/><br \/>\nThe church and balcony were full because the parade service brought uniformed groups from both churches together with parents.<br \/>\n <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/imag18\/18101406.jpg\" alt=\"Joint Harvest and Parade Service\" \/><br \/>\nThe young people took a lot of the service with readings and  prayers and various activities. At one stage they trailed a rope, down the aisle, and up the stairs to the balcony so that everybody was connected either with the rope or with each other. This was to illustrate Jesus saying, &#8216;I am the vine. You are the branches.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abingdon Baptist Church (ABC) are on their travels while their church building is being revamped. Most Sundays they meet at Carswell School but on one Sunday a month they join with Trinity. This morning was such a Sunday and coincided with the Harvest service and Parade Service. Donations to the harvest this year go to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abingdonblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}