{"id":25095,"date":"2011-03-15T21:01:55","date_gmt":"2011-03-15T21:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/umns_church_mergers_take_time_energy_work\/"},"modified":"2011-03-15T21:01:55","modified_gmt":"2011-03-15T21:01:55","slug":"umns_church_mergers_take_time_energy_work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=25095","title":{"rendered":"(UMNS) Church mergers take time, energy, work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When two congregations with declining membership and attendance merge, the resulting church must make changes, says a member of the rebirth team for a merged church in Winona, Minn.<\/p>\n<p>Corwin Osterloh believes the two churches have much more work to do.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwo congregations with declining membership are still going down the same path,\u201d\u009d said Osterloh, a member of Central United Methodist Church, which merged in July 2010 with McKinley United Methodist Church.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe really started talking about the fact that what we were doing wasn\u2019t working.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.umc.org\/site\/apps\/nlnet\/content3.aspx?c=lwL4KnN1LtH&#038;b=5259669&#038;ct=9180099\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When two congregations with declining membership and attendance merge, the resulting church must make changes, says a member of the rebirth team for a merged church in Winona, Minn. Corwin Osterloh believes the two churches have much more work to<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=25095\">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":[48,42,360,437,435,154,184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-religion-news-commentary","category-methodist","category-ministry-of-the-laity","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25095","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=25095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}