{"id":12040,"date":"2009-04-01T20:14:28","date_gmt":"2009-04-01T20:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/elca_council_reduces_churchwide_staff_budgets_for_2009\/"},"modified":"2009-04-01T20:14:28","modified_gmt":"2009-04-01T20:14:28","slug":"elca_council_reduces_churchwide_staff_budgets_for_2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12040","title":{"rendered":"ELCA Council Reduces Churchwide Staff, Budgets for 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(ELCA News) Responding to an overall decline in mission support funds, the Church Council of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) reduced the churchwide organization&#8217;s current fund spending authorization for 2009 by $5.6 million to $76.8 million.  Its action, taken without comment, resulted in elimination of a number of churchwide staff positions and vacant positions, and affected churchwide ministries.<\/p>\n<p>The council also reduced the 2009 World Hunger Appeal spending authorization by $1.9 million to $18.7 million.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.elca.org\/Who-We-Are\/Our-Three-Expressions\/Churchwide-Organization\/Communication-Services\/News\/Releases.aspx?a=4098\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(ELCA News) Responding to an overall decline in mission support funds, the Church Council of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) reduced the churchwide organization&#8217;s current fund spending authorization for 2009 by $5.6 million to $76.8 million. Its action,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12040\">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":[40,42,149,363,154,596],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-religion-news-commentary","category-economy","category-lutheran","category-other-churches","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12040","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=12040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}