What a weekend. Thank you to everyone at Marion for releasing our Corps Officer team to attend a wedding and Commissioning in Melbourne. Thank you, especially, to Majors Harry and Loris and Catherine and Craig for leading services in our absence.
Commissioning is a big event in Salvation Army circles. It occurs over three significant services. In the first, officers covenant with God their availability to serve. In the second, they are ordained as ministers of the gospel of Jesus Christ and commissioned as officers in The Salvation Army. In the third, they are vested with the authority of leadership and given their first appointment as commissioned officers.
This Commissioning weekend had some significance for us here at Marion as we had links with a few of the cadets, now lieutenants. Katherine Baudinette (nee Rowe) is Nathan's sister. She was commissioned and appointed as a Corps Officer at Richmond, in Victoria. Fiona Kean (nee Hailes) attended the Corps (at Seacombe) as a child. She, with her husband Matthew, were commissioned and appointed as Corps Officers at Hobsons Bay in Victoria (a multi-campus merger of Altona and Williamstown Corps). Marie Kovacs spent part of this year on 'out training' placement here at Marion. She was commissioned and appointed as the assistant corps officer at Sunshine in Victoria.
Please pray for our friends over the coming months as they prepare to move to their new homes and appointments.
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