{"id":483,"date":"2019-05-27T08:26:55","date_gmt":"2019-05-26T22:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ferntreegullyadventist.org.au\/wpress\/?p=483"},"modified":"2019-05-27T08:26:55","modified_gmt":"2019-05-26T22:26:55","slug":"80th-birthday-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ferntreegullyadventist.org.au\/wpress\/?p=483","title":{"rendered":"80th Birthday Celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ferntree Gully Seventh-day Adventist Church Event<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Sabbath afternoon (Saturday, 25 May 2019), during the luncheon in the church hall, long-time church member, Malcolm Preston celebrated his 80<sup>th<\/sup> Birthday with family and friends.<\/p>\n<p>Malcolm has been a church member for a great many years, contributing in many levels of church activities. Currently he teaches Bible studies on Sabbath mornings. And his sermons, meticulously researched and prepared, are well received during church worship.<\/p>\n<p>[Photos by John Weeks]<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-486\" src=\"http:\/\/ferntreegullyadventist.org.au\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Malcolm-Prestons-80th-Birthday-Celebration-03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"746\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-485\" src=\"http:\/\/ferntreegullyadventist.org.au\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Malcolm-Prestons-80th-Birthday-Celebration-02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"505\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-484\" src=\"http:\/\/ferntreegullyadventist.org.au\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Malcolm-Prestons-80th-Birthday-Celebration-01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"751\" height=\"406\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-489\" src=\"http:\/\/ferntreegullyadventist.org.au\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Malcolm-Prestons-80th-Birthday-Celebration-06.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"781\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ferntreegullyadventist.org.au\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Malcolm-Prestons-80th-Birthday-Celebration-06.jpg 781w, https:\/\/ferntreegullyadventist.org.au\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Malcolm-Prestons-80th-Birthday-Celebration-06-768x443.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 781px) 100vw, 781px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-487\" src=\"http:\/\/ferntreegullyadventist.org.au\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Malcolm-Prestons-80th-Birthday-Celebration-04.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"565\" height=\"506\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-488\" src=\"http:\/\/ferntreegullyadventist.org.au\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Malcolm-Prestons-80th-Birthday-Celebration-05.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"323\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-490\" src=\"http:\/\/ferntreegullyadventist.org.au\/wpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Malcolm-Prestons-80th-Birthday-Celebration-07.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"715\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ferntree Gully Seventh-day Adventist Church Event On Sabbath afternoon (Saturday, 25 May 2019), during the luncheon in the church hall, long-time church member, Malcolm Preston celebrated his 80th Birthday with family and friends. Malcolm has been a church member for a great many years, contributing in many levels of church activities. Currently he teaches Bible [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-activities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ferntreegullyadventist.org.au\/wpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ferntreegullyadventist.org.au\/wpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ferntreegullyadventist.org.au\/wpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ferntreegullyadventist.org.au\/wpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ferntreegullyadventist.org.au\/wpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ferntreegullyadventist.org.au\/wpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":491,"href":"https:\/\/ferntreegullyadventist.org.au\/wpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions\/491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ferntreegullyadventist.org.au\/wpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ferntreegullyadventist.org.au\/wpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ferntreegullyadventist.org.au\/wpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}