{"id":104901,"date":"2021-09-10T12:20:03","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T16:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=104901"},"modified":"2021-09-10T17:03:43","modified_gmt":"2021-09-10T21:03:43","slug":"wcax-tec-diocese-of-vermont-confronts-financial-squeeze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=104901","title":{"rendered":"(WCAX) TEC Diocese of Vermont confronts financial squeeze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Episcopal Diocese of Vermont is considering its next steps after a recent financial analysis revealed problems.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFewer people may mean fewer dollars coming in to those congregations and thus those congregations giving fewer dollars to support the dioceses,\u201d said the Diocese\u2019s Rev. Walter Brownridge. This is the flow of finances for the church in Vermont and he fears they will struggle to support their 45 congregations. \u201cWe knew we were facing some real challenges in a few years if we didn\u2019t change course.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There are less than 6,000 Episcopalians in the state, a number that is on the decline due to various reasons, including an aging demographic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m almost 80 myself and I\u2019m not particularly unusual in our congregation, and there are a lot of parishes like this that are losing members due to attrition, to deaths, to people moving away,\u201d said Glenn Sproul, a member of the All Saints Episcopal Church in South Burlington.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcax.com\/2021\/08\/11\/episcopal-diocese-vermont-confronts-financial-squeeze\/\">Read it all<\/a> (part of summer break article catch-up).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Episcopal Diocese of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Vt?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Vt<\/a> confronts financial squeeze <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/B9L5YoNVC5\">https:\/\/t.co\/B9L5YoNVC5<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/f4VmfqE63A\">pic.twitter.com\/f4VmfqE63A<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Channel 3 News (@wcax) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wcax\/status\/1425774070726074374?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 12, 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>The Episcopal Diocese of Vermont is considering its next steps after a recent financial analysis revealed problems. \u201cFewer people may mean fewer dollars coming in to those congregations and thus those congregations giving fewer dollars to support the dioceses,\u201d said<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=104901\">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":[209,66,184,108,441,380],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americau-s-a","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-stewardship","category-tec-parishes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104901","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=104901"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104903,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104901\/revisions\/104903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}