{"id":24,"date":"2008-09-09T09:07:10","date_gmt":"2008-09-09T14:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marktime.org\/?p=24"},"modified":"2009-02-17T11:14:04","modified_gmt":"2009-02-17T16:14:04","slug":"starting-as-a-deacon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marktime.org\/?p=24","title":{"rendered":"Starting as a Deacon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My journey as an active deacon is beginning again.<\/p>\n<p>Last night I attended my first Board of Deacons meeting at church.\u00a0 This was the reorganization meeting for this year.\u00a0 I had also been to New Officer Training last Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>I was assigned to the Prayer Team, my first choice.\u00a0 Last year&#8217;s deacon president preached a sermon in which she recounted her trepidation in being assigned to the Prayer Team, so I was surprised to see last night that the 3 slots were filled with people who had chosen it as their first choice, plus 2 others will join us as well.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"e232e6521e9\"><a href=\"http:\/\/secretworldchronicle.com\/podcast\/book-one-invasion\/\">soft tabs cialis<\/a>  Alas! 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