{"id":19456,"date":"2010-04-29T15:20:53","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T15:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/living_church_sams_changes_its_name\/"},"modified":"2010-04-29T15:20:53","modified_gmt":"2010-04-29T15:20:53","slug":"living_church_sams_changes_its_name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=19456","title":{"rendered":"Living Church: SAMS Changes Its Name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The missionary society known as SAMS is keeping its acronym but changing what the initials mean. What was the South American Missionary Society\u201d\u201cUSA is now the Society of Anglican Missionaries and Senders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are offering more opportunities for people to serve,\u201d\u009d said Stewart Wicker, president and mission director of SAMS.<\/p>\n<p>Wicker said the society sent its first missionary outside of Central and South America 15 years ago. That missionary served in Spain, and today 20 of the society\u2019s 78 missionaries are serving outside of South America.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.livingchurch.org\/news\/news-updates\/2010\/4\/28\/sams-changes-its-name\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The missionary society known as SAMS is keeping its acronym but changing what the initials mean. What was the South American Missionary Society\u201d\u201cUSA is now the Society of Anglican Missionaries and Senders. \u201cWe are offering more opportunities for people to<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=19456\">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":[36,48,72,66,182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-anglican-latest-news","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-missions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19456","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=19456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}