{"id":111996,"date":"2016-03-21T00:24:59","date_gmt":"2016-03-21T00:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2016\/03\/21\/special-service-for-elderly-people-at-dsbc\/"},"modified":"2016-03-21T00:24:59","modified_gmt":"2016-03-21T00:24:59","slug":"special-service-for-elderly-people-at-dsbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2016\/03\/21\/special-service-for-elderly-people-at-dsbc\/","title":{"rendered":"Special service for elderly people at DSBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\/old_site\/BSXWNKNUDWSKCPEUJHYD.jpg><\/p>\n<div>Dimapur Sumi Baptist Church (DSBC) organized a special get-together for septuagenarian above under the theme, \u201cAxukushu Mekua\u201d as a tribute to the elderly members of the church on Sunday.<\/div>\n<div>Speakers of the service were senior pastor DSBC, Rev. S. Vitoshe Swu and associate pastor DSBC, Kanili Aye. Both speakers presented messages basing on Psalms 71 of the Bible. They reminded the gathering that they draw more close to God in their old age and encouraged the old people to continue to be source of blessing and inspiration for the people, society at large and for the church.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Speakers also shared with the gathering about the reason behind observing \u201cInternational Day of Older Persons\u201d every year on October 1. Prayer for good health and long life was offered during the service. Z. Yeholi Aye and Lhokiye spoke on behalf of the elderly people.<\/div>\n<div>More than 60 elderly members of the church, who had been unable to attend church services regularly to old age, eagerly attended the service. A nonagenarian of 98 years was the oldest but most active and vibrant among the gathering.<\/div>\n<div>Pastor DSBC, Juliet Shikhu and associate pastor DSBC Tohovi Chophy conducted the service.<\/div>\n<div>Air-gun shooting for men and hitting target with soft ball for women were held as part of recreational activity for the elderly people.&nbsp;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dimapur Sumi Baptist Church (DSBC) organized a special get-together for septuagenarian above under the theme, \u201cAxukushu Mekua\u201d as a tribute to the elderly members of the church on Sunday. Speakers of the service were senior pastor DSBC, Rev. S. Vitoshe Swu and associate pastor DSBC, Kanili Aye. Both speakers presented messages basing on Psalms 71 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[679],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nagaland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}