{"id":12005,"date":"2009-03-31T14:00:56","date_gmt":"2009-03-31T14:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/pittsburgh_post_gazette_financial_crunch_weighing_heavily_on_churches\/"},"modified":"2009-03-31T14:00:56","modified_gmt":"2009-03-31T14:00:56","slug":"pittsburgh_post_gazette_financial_crunch_weighing_heavily_on_churches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12005","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Financial crunch weighing heavily on churches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At a meeting last week of the Urban Church Network, leaders of 80 predominantly black churches in Allegheny County discussed how to stem a financial crisis that has forced some pastors to take a second full-time job and a few churches to close.<\/p>\n<p>Their first concern was how to help neighborhoods through times so hard that robbery and high blood pressure have soared, said the Rev. Jermaine McKinley, assistant director of the Metro-Urban Institute at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. With little of their own to give, they want to teach others how to tap into the government stimulus package to improve their communities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Most churches are not in the business of building houses. We don&#8217;t build roads. But what we can do is help the community to address the issue,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/pg\/09088\/959157-85.stm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a meeting last week of the Urban Church Network, leaders of 80 predominantly black churches in Allegheny County discussed how to stem a financial crisis that has forced some pastors to take a second full-time job and a few<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12005\">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-12005","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\/12005","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=12005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}