{"id":11988,"date":"2009-03-30T15:30:07","date_gmt":"2009-03-30T15:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/usa_today_in_times_like_these_more_people_are_going_to_church_for_help\/"},"modified":"2009-03-30T15:30:07","modified_gmt":"2009-03-30T15:30:07","slug":"usa_today_in_times_like_these_more_people_are_going_to_church_for_help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=11988","title":{"rendered":"USA Today: In times like these, more people are going to church for help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pleas for help \u201d\u201d spiritual and financial \u201d\u201d are flooding U.S. churches, from tiny congregations to megachurches, as recession woes seep into the pews, a new survey finds.<\/p>\n<p>Pastors say they&#8217;re giving out benevolent funds in record numbers, increasing ministries to the unemployed and the financially fearful, even reaching into their own pockets more to help.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly two in three pastors (62%) report more people from outside their church asking for help, and nearly a third (31%) see more such requests from church members, according to a survey of 1,000 Protestant pastors.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/religion\/2009-03-29-churches-helping_N.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pleas for help \u201d\u201d spiritual and financial \u201d\u201d are flooding U.S. churches, from tiny congregations to megachurches, as recession woes seep into the pews, a new survey finds. Pastors say they&#8217;re giving out benevolent funds in record numbers, increasing ministries<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=11988\">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":[48,40,149,184,596],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-economics-politics","category-economy","category-parish-ministry","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11988","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=11988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}