{"id":22095,"date":"2010-09-29T15:00:40","date_gmt":"2010-09-29T15:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns-churches_find_empty_pews_at_sunday_evening_services\/"},"modified":"2010-09-29T15:00:40","modified_gmt":"2010-09-29T15:00:40","slug":"rns-churches_find_empty_pews_at_sunday_evening_services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=22095","title":{"rendered":"RNS&#8211;Churches Find Empty Pews at Sunday Evening Services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Doug De Vries describes Sunday evening worship as \u201ca lot less formal\u201d\u009d than the morning service at Plymouth Heights Christian Reformed Church.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s also a lot less crowded.<\/p>\n<p>Plymouth Heights is in step with a larger trend of declining evening attendance in evangelical denominations that long have cherished a heritage of worshiping twice on Sunday. Some evening services are more intimate; others have been cancelled or replaced by an alternative.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a business question that has been asked,\u201d\u009d said De Vries, the church\u2019s minister of music. \u201cPeople are spending time with their family (on Sunday nights) or using that time to get together in small groups. We were concerned that we were squandering resources to put the evening service together.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicsdaily.com\/news.php?viewStory=16764\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doug De Vries describes Sunday evening worship as \u201ca lot less formal\u201d\u009d than the morning service at Plymouth Heights Christian Reformed Church. It\u2019s also a lot less crowded. Plymouth Heights is in step with a larger trend of declining evening<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=22095\">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":[48,39,42,183,154,184,413,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-liturgy-music-worship","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-reformed","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22095","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=22095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}