{"id":16869,"date":"2009-12-24T03:16:57","date_gmt":"2009-12-24T03:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/in_scotland_church_hopes_its_special_ale_will_get_pub_regulars_into_christm\/"},"modified":"2009-12-24T03:16:57","modified_gmt":"2009-12-24T03:16:57","slug":"in_scotland_church_hopes_its_special_ale_will_get_pub_regulars_into_christm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=16869","title":{"rendered":"In Scotland Church hopes its special ale will get pub regulars into Christmas spirit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There used to be a time when churches could rely on being filled on a weekly basis, come rain or shine.<\/p>\n<p>But dwindling congregations and ageing members have forced churches to look for ways to innovate and modernise in an attempt to get the Christian message out.<\/p>\n<p>And so members of Greyfriars Parish Church in Lanark have decided to exchange pews for bar stools in an attempt to spread the festive message with a Christmas Eve carol-singing session at a local pub, the Clydesdale Inn.<\/p>\n<p>Their minister, the Rev Bryan Kerr, said that the church had looked at ways of getting their message out beyond the church.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thescotsman.scotsman.com\/scotland\/Church-hopes-its-special-ale.5929779.jp\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There used to be a time when churches could rely on being filled on a weekly basis, come rain or shine. But dwindling congregations and ageing members have forced churches to look for ways to innovate and modernise in an<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=16869\">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":[48,50,42,199,440,154,184,417,326],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-england-uk","category-evangelism-and-church-growth","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-presbyterian","category-scotland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16869","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=16869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}