{"id":1615,"date":"2021-03-03T12:15:24","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T18:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.naccc.org\/?p=1615"},"modified":"2021-03-03T12:15:24","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T18:15:24","slug":"celebrating-church-anniversaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.naccc.org\/celebrating-church-anniversaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Church Anniversaries"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remember and Rejoice.\u00a0Preserving the history gives us our sense of identity. Rediscover how your church came into being. \u00a0A church anniversary is an occasion to hear the stories of the past.<\/p>\n

There are many ideas on the internet for celebrating church anniversaries. \u00a0Some of our churches have generously provided us with their worship service materials and ideas to help you plan that significant church anniversary.<\/p>\n

“In the future, when your children ask you, ‘What do these stones mean to you?’ you should tell them . . . Joshua 4:6-7<\/i><\/em><\/p>\n

Planning Ideas<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n

First Congregational Church, Toulon, IL – 100th Anniversary<\/i><\/em>
\nService of Rededication<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n

First Church of Squantum, MA – 100th Anniversary<\/i><\/em>
\nRededication Worship Service<\/u><\/a>
\nOrder of Worship – Candlelight Service<\/u><\/a>
\n\u00a0Anniversary Reminiscenses<\/u><\/a>
\nAnniversary Litany<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n

Grace Church of Columbiana, OH – 200th Anniversary<\/i><\/em>
\nBicentennial Program Booklet<\/u><\/a>
\nRechartering and Historical Service<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n

Congregational Worshipbook – Henry David Grey<\/i><\/em>
\nOrder of Worship and Litany of Re-Affirmation<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-resources","category-worship-resources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naccc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naccc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naccc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naccc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naccc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.naccc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1625,"href":"https:\/\/www.naccc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615\/revisions\/1625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naccc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naccc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naccc.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}