{"id":106570,"date":"2021-11-03T17:00:31","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T21:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=106570"},"modified":"2021-11-03T19:06:51","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T23:06:51","slug":"church-sees-congregation-grow-with-outdoor-prayer-meetings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=106570","title":{"rendered":"(C of E) Church sees congregation grow with outdoor prayer meetings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>St Mary the Virgin, Fawley, launched the Friday prayer group in the first week of lockdown in March 2020. <\/p>\n<p>Led by a local congregant, Julia Ogilvy, the group has seen around 50 people regularly attend in the churchyard with more than 100 people joining at Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>Julia explained: \u201cThe usual congregation for our fortnightly Sunday service is around eight people whereas we have at least 50 regulars who like to attend Friday prayers whenever they can.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The informal nature of the outdoor setting also helped congregants feel safer during the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchofengland.org\/media-and-news\/stories-blogs-and-features\/church-sees-congregation-grow-outdoor-prayer-meetings\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Beautiful sunsets need cloudy skies <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/sunset?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#sunset<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/sunsetphotography?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#sunsetphotography<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ffUk8582zj\">pic.twitter.com\/ffUk8582zj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mystic Mel (@Melshenny1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Melshenny1\/status\/1455949257995956230?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 3, 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>St Mary the Virgin, Fawley, launched the Friday prayer group in the first week of lockdown in March 2020. Led by a local congregant, Julia Ogilvy, the group has seen around 50 people regularly attend in the churchyard with more<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=106570\">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":[389,183,184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-england-coe","category-liturgy-music-worship","category-parish-ministry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106570","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=106570"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106577,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106570\/revisions\/106577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}