{"id":504,"date":"2015-03-19T12:01:37","date_gmt":"2015-03-19T12:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.risen.org.uk\/?p=504"},"modified":"2015-03-19T09:41:36","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T09:41:36","slug":"blog-march-19th-2015-rev-stephens-leaving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/?p=504","title":{"rendered":"Blog March 19th 2015 &#8211; Rev. Stephen\u2019s Leaving !"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-505\" src=\"http:\/\/www.risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Girlings-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Girlings\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Girlings-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Girlings-624x468.jpg 624w, https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Girlings.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n&#8220;The Girling Family&#8221; (not pictured, Charlotte) &#8211; will be much missed- thanks for everything.<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-504-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/04-Glorious-In-His-Humility.m4a?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/04-Glorious-In-His-Humility.m4a\">http:\/\/www.risen.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/04-Glorious-In-His-Humility.m4a<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&#8220;Glorious in His Humility &#8221;\u00a0Featuring Lucy Stimpson-Maynard with backing vocals from Kat Hands from\u00a0CD &#8220;Love Is The Way&#8221; recorded by John Hogdkinson.<\/p>\n<p>Sorry for short blog this week but I have been laid low with a wicked flu type bug. Feeling a bit better today but now by lovely wife Caroline has gone down with the same thing.<\/p>\n<p>I was especially upset to have missed the leaving party at Holy Rood for our Vicar, Rev.\u00a0 Stephen Girling and his family- leaving after 14 years of fantastic service.<\/p>\n<p>Among many things for which I am extremely grateful, Stephen married Caroline and myself in a wonderful service nearly seven years ago, conducted Caroline\u2019s unforgettable baptism in the Solent and is, of course, father to Joffy, without whom there would be no Risen !- The Musical.\u00a0 So I wish Stephen, Diane and all the family every good wish for their new life in Bath. \u00a0Stephen will be working in Bath Abbey, teaming up with his old friend Peter Hancock, who is Bishop of Bath.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately I was not laid low until Saturday 14<sup>th<\/sup> so I was ok to travel to London on the Friday for the last day of mixing Risen! with Andrew Bourbon and Joffy at the London College of Music.\u00a0 That went really well, but I also met with Niamh Mcguckin, a Lecturer in the Performing Arts Department. To say the meeting went well would be a huge under -statement but I will wait till next week, when hopefully back to full strength, before telling you the whole exciting story.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime I hope you enjoy this week\u2019s featured song \u201cGlorious In His Humility.\u201d This was sung by Lucy Stimpson- Maynard at that concert for Roberta Cousins I talked about in last week\u2019s blog -and later recorded on the album \u201cLove is the Way.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Girling Family&#8221; (not pictured, Charlotte) &#8211; will be much missed- thanks for everything. &#8220;Glorious in His Humility &#8221;\u00a0Featuring Lucy Stimpson-Maynard with backing vocals from Kat Hands from\u00a0CD &#8220;Love Is The Way&#8221; recorded by John Hogdkinson. Sorry for short blog this week but I have been laid low with a wicked flu type bug. Feeling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ken-shearsmiths-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=504"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":508,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions\/508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/risen.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}