{"id":103598,"date":"2021-06-30T07:00:37","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T11:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=103598"},"modified":"2021-06-30T07:48:31","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T11:48:31","slug":"c-of-e-the-church-that-grew-out-of-a-lockdown-whatsapp-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=103598","title":{"rendered":"(C Of E) The church that grew out of a lockdown WhatsApp group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWithin a couple of days we had received lots of messages from people \u2013 mainly young adults,\u201d Venessa said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe started engaging via WhatsApp on questions of spirituality and faith and out of that we began meeting on Zoom for social activities and to talk about faith. Gradually that transformed into something more formal and into an inter cultural worshipping community that we call Roots.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchofengland.org\/media-and-news\/stories-and-features\/church-grew-out-lockdown-whatsapp-group\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Great write up on the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/churchofengland?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@churchofengland<\/a> website of Roots, our recently formed intercultural worshipping community: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/egpY25ozGU\">https:\/\/t.co\/egpY25ozGU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Diocese of Leicester (@leicestercofe) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/leicestercofe\/status\/1409874372786069506?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 29, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWithin a couple of days we had received lots of messages from people \u2013 mainly young adults,\u201d Venessa said. \u201cWe started engaging via WhatsApp on questions of spirituality and faith and out of that we began meeting on Zoom for<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=103598\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433,389,199,184,108,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-networking","category-church-of-england-coe","category-england-uk","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103598"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103601,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103598\/revisions\/103601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}