{"id":109397,"date":"2022-02-03T17:01:20","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T22:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=109397"},"modified":"2022-02-03T18:04:02","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T23:04:02","slug":"bbc-suffolk-churchwarden-thought-to-be-youngest-in-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=109397","title":{"rendered":"(BBC) Suffolk churchwarden thought to be youngest in England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A teenager has become what is thought to be England&#8217;s youngest churchwarden.<\/p>\n<p>Ben Jenkins was appointed during a recent service at St Nicolas in Stanningfield, Suffolk.<\/p>\n<p>The 19-year-old said he wanted to &#8220;make a difference&#8221; to his local church and community.<\/p>\n<p>The Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich, the Right Reverend Martin Seeley, said it was &#8220;wonderful&#8221; to see younger people coming forward to serve their churches.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Jenkins was elected to the office of churchwarden at the Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich&#8217;s annual parochial church meeting in December.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-england-suffolk-60236736\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Suffolk churchwarden thought to be youngest in England <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SCuCBfu23H\">https:\/\/t.co\/SCuCBfu23H<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; BBC Radio Suffolk (@BBCSuffolk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBCSuffolk\/status\/1488952733470187523?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 2, 2022<\/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>A teenager has become what is thought to be England&#8217;s youngest churchwarden. Ben Jenkins was appointed during a recent service at St Nicolas in Stanningfield, Suffolk. The 19-year-old said he wanted to &#8220;make a difference&#8221; to his local church and<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=109397\">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":[389,437,184,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-england-coe","category-ministry-of-the-laity","category-parish-ministry","category-young-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109397","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=109397"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109400,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109397\/revisions\/109400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}