{"id":4530,"date":"2010-06-17T07:43:41","date_gmt":"2010-06-17T07:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2010\/06\/the-new-guy.html"},"modified":"2010-06-17T07:43:41","modified_gmt":"2010-06-17T07:43:41","slug":"the-new-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2010\/06\/the-new-guy.html","title":{"rendered":"The new guy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/17decon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"17decon.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/212\/import\/assets_c\/2010\/06\/17decon-thumb-250x188-15143.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center;margin: 0pt auto 20px\" height=\"188\" width=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/span><br \/>\nMalaysia got its first new permanent deacon in 30 years yesterday.  <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2010\/06\/one-country-with-only-two-deacons.html\">As previously noted,<\/a> he&#8217;s one of two in the country, and only 34 years old.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cathnewsindia.com\/2010\/06\/17\/malaysians-welcome-first-of-seven-deacons\/\">The local paper<\/a> has a complete write up, with the happy news that six others will be following in his footsteps.  Congratulations, Deacon Sherman Kuek!&nbsp; <i> Ad multos annos!<\/p>\n<p><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malaysia got its first new permanent deacon in 30 years yesterday. As previously noted, he&#8217;s one of two in the country, and only 34 years old. The local paper has a complete write up, with the happy news that six others will be following in his footsteps. Congratulations, Deacon Sherman Kuek!&nbsp; Ad multos annos!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deacons","category-vocations"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The new guy - The Deacon&#039;s Bench<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2010\/06\/the-new-guy.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The new guy - The Deacon&#039;s Bench\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Malaysia got its first new permanent deacon in 30 years yesterday. 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