{"id":14707,"date":"2009-08-30T22:00:19","date_gmt":"2009-08-30T22:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/young_methodist_clergy_evangelize_in_cyberspace\/"},"modified":"2009-08-30T22:00:19","modified_gmt":"2009-08-30T22:00:19","slug":"young_methodist_clergy_evangelize_in_cyberspace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=14707","title":{"rendered":"Young Methodist clergy evangelize in cyberspace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Young United Methodist clergy see the elephant in the sanctuary \u201d\u201c the fact more ministers are headed for retirement than the pulpits \u201d\u201c and they are grabbing the mops.<\/p>\n<p>The concerned under-35 crowd is doing what comes naturally. It is using social media \u201d\u201c Facebook, Twitter and blogs \u201d\u201c to form an online community to search for ways to draw more young people into ministry and into the pews.<\/p>\n<p>A core group of 10 young clergy met with the United Methodist Board of Higher Education and Ministry in February. As a result, hundreds of young clergy are now talking and creating relationships in cyberspace through their own Web site, www.umcyoungclergy.com.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.umc.org\/site\/apps\/nlnet\/content3.aspx?c=lwL4KnN1LtH&#038;b=5259609&#038;ct=7327611\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Young United Methodist clergy see the elephant in the sanctuary \u201d\u201c the fact more ministers are headed for retirement than the pulpits \u201d\u201c and they are grabbing the mops. The concerned under-35 crowd is doing what comes naturally. It is<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=14707\">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":[48,39,42,94,440,360,154,184,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-blogging-the-internet","category-evangelism-and-church-growth","category-methodist","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-young-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14707","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=14707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}