{"id":1696,"date":"2007-09-03T22:48:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-03T22:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/church_leader_goes_to_ghana\/"},"modified":"2007-09-03T22:48:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-03T22:48:00","slug":"church_leader_goes_to_ghana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=1696","title":{"rendered":"North Carolina Church leader goes to Ghana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Orthodox Anglican Communion has churches in 12 nations and nearly one million members. By October, because of requests from 2,000 parishes in India to join the denomination, the church will boast 2 to 3 million members, said David Bessinger, the archdiocese director of communications.<\/p>\n<p>Christ Anglican Church is the denomination&#8217;s only congregation in Davidson County. The denomination&#8217;s headquarters has been here since 2004 and is on East Second Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>On his trip to Africa, McLaughlin arrived in Accru, Ghana, after a 10-hour flight and then headed to Secondi via motorcade. When he arrived, more than 2,000 people were there to greet him, many wearing bright, yellow T-shirts with his photo on the front.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ldedit.ny.publicus.com\/article\/20070825\/NEWS\/708250306\/1009\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Orthodox Anglican Communion has churches in 12 nations and nearly one million members. By October, because of requests from 2,000 parishes in India to join the denomination, the church will boast 2 to 3 million members, said David Bessinger,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=1696\">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":[42,421,154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion-news-commentary","category-anglican-continuum","category-other-churches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1696","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=1696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}