{"id":24294,"date":"2011-01-31T04:02:48","date_gmt":"2011-01-31T04:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/local_south_carolina_minister_leaving_seacoast_church_for_saddleback_in_cal\/"},"modified":"2011-01-31T04:02:48","modified_gmt":"2011-01-31T04:02:48","slug":"local_south_carolina_minister_leaving_seacoast_church_for_saddleback_in_cal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24294","title":{"rendered":"Local South Carolina Minister leaving Seacoast Church for Saddleback in California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A local pastor is leaving the 30th largest church in America for the sixth largest church in America &#8212; to help make the bigger church bigger.<\/p>\n<p>Geoff Surratt, pastor of ministries at Mount Pleasant-based Seacoast Church, will join Rick Warren and Saddleback Church in Southern California as director of church planting, according to a news release.<\/p>\n<p>Surratt will spearhead one of the key initiatives in Saddleback&#8217;s &#8220;Decade of Destiny Campaign,&#8221; which includes the launch of a new church planting center later this year. Part of Surratt&#8217;s responsibility will be to develop Warren&#8217;s vision for planting churches through that center and other programs, according to the release.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/news\/2011\/jan\/30\/pastor-heads-to-calif\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A local pastor is leaving the 30th largest church in America for the sixth largest church in America &#8212; to help make the bigger church bigger. Geoff Surratt, pastor of ministries at Mount Pleasant-based Seacoast Church, will join Rick Warren<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24294\">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":[48,39,42,54,419,440,154,184,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-south-carolina","category-evangelicals","category-evangelism-and-church-growth","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24294","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=24294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}