{"id":18059,"date":"2010-02-22T18:30:35","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T18:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/declining_membership_hurts_episcopal_churches_in_northern_california\/"},"modified":"2010-02-22T18:30:35","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T18:30:35","slug":"declining_membership_hurts_episcopal_churches_in_northern_california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=18059","title":{"rendered":"Declining membership hurts Episcopal churches in Northern California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>She sings the litany. He delivers the sermon.<\/p>\n<p>It is Sunday morning at All Saints Episcopal Church in Sacramento and both the Revs. Michael and Betsey Monnot preside over the worship services, one of several ways the church keeps down expenses.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We trade off duties every week,&#8221; said Betsey Monnot.<\/p>\n<p>The two priests, who are married and have two children and another due in three weeks, said the church could afford one full-time clergyperson. So they agreed to job-share and serve as co-rectors.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When you&#8217;re a small church, you have to be creative,&#8221; said Michael Monnot.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/2010\/02\/22\/2554285\/declining-membership-hurts-episcopal.html#mi_rss=Our%20Region\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She sings the litany. He delivers the sermon. It is Sunday morning at All Saints Episcopal Church in Sacramento and both the Revs. Michael and Betsey Monnot preside over the worship services, one of several ways the church keeps down<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=18059\">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":[36,48,66,440,184,375,380],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-evangelism-and-church-growth","category-parish-ministry","category-tec-data","category-tec-parishes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18059","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=18059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}