{"id":778,"date":"2009-09-21T21:15:48","date_gmt":"2009-09-22T01:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bart-allen\/?p=778"},"modified":"2009-09-21T21:31:05","modified_gmt":"2009-09-22T01:31:05","slug":"barts-ordination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bart-allen\/2009\/09\/21\/barts-ordination\/","title":{"rendered":"Bart&#8217;s Ordination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-779\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bart-allen\/files\/2009\/09\/DSCN9512-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bart-allen\/files\/2009\/09\/DSCN9512-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bart-allen\/files\/2009\/09\/DSCN9512-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bart-allen\/files\/2009\/09\/DSCN9512.JPG 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Earlier this spring our pastor approached Bart about being ordained before we leave for Papua New Guinea.\u00a0 While ordination is not a requirement for being a tribal church planter, Bart felt that it would be a beneficial thing for him to go through.\u00a0 So, the studying began!!!\u00a0 In reality, he had been studying for this his whole life.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-782\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bart-allen\/files\/2009\/09\/DSCN95171-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"With Greg and Dawn\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bart-allen\/files\/2009\/09\/DSCN95171-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bart-allen\/files\/2009\/09\/DSCN95171-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bart-allen\/files\/2009\/09\/DSCN95171.JPG 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The first step of the process was organizing a council of other ordained men to question and examine Bart to be sure he was fit for the Gospel ministry.\u00a0 Besides questioning him on doctrinal issues, they also talked to people in our church and neighborhood to evaluate his character. That ordination council took place in July and after about 2 1\/2 hours of questions, the men determined that Bart was qualified to be ordained.<\/p>\n<p>Our church planned an ordination service at the end of August and many of the men who were on the ordination council were able to attend.\u00a0 In addition to the pastors from two of our supporting churches, a special treat was that Greg and Dawn Sanford came from Jersey Shore <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-785\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bart-allen\/files\/2009\/09\/DSCN9515-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"With our pastor\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bart-allen\/files\/2009\/09\/DSCN9515-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bart-allen\/files\/2009\/09\/DSCN9515-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bart-allen\/files\/2009\/09\/DSCN9515.JPG 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>so Greg could give the charge to Bart.\u00a0 Greg was one of our main instructors during our first year of New Tribes training in central PA.<\/p>\n<p><strong>So, Bart is now officially an ordained minister of the Gospel!\u00a0 You don&#8217;t have to call him Reverend Allen, though.\u00a0 He&#8217;s still the same old Bart!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bart is now ordained!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":392,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-778","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-ministry","7":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bart-allen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bart-allen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bart-allen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bart-allen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/392"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bart-allen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bart-allen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bart-allen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bart-allen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bart-allen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}