{"id":15414,"date":"2009-10-08T15:18:43","date_gmt":"2009-10-08T15:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/comox_valley_echo_island_anglicans_face_crunch\/"},"modified":"2009-10-08T15:18:43","modified_gmt":"2009-10-08T15:18:43","slug":"comox_valley_echo_island_anglicans_face_crunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=15414","title":{"rendered":"Comox Valley Echo: Island Anglicans face crunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The decision to suspend the camp&#8217;s operations is just the first of many expected changes in the diocese, which serves Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands. In a recent issue of the Diocesan Post, Rev. Gary Nicolosi made it clear a major transformation is needed.<\/p>\n<p>Under the headline &#8211; &#8220;Can We Handle The Truth?&#8221; &#8211; Nicolosi said average Sunday attendance across the entire Island fell last year to 3,856 from 4,955 in 2007. The average Anglican congregation had just 82 worshippers &#8211; down 15 from the previous year &#8211; and most parishes reported budget deficits.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/Island+Anglicans+face+crunch\/2072998\/story.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The decision to suspend the camp&#8217;s operations is just the first of many expected changes in the diocese, which serves Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands. In a recent issue of the Diocesan Post, Rev. Gary Nicolosi made it clear<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=15414\">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":[36,388,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-anglican-church-of-canada","category-anglican-provinces"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15414","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=15414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}