{"id":26467,"date":"2011-05-31T17:00:23","date_gmt":"2011-05-31T17:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/church_in_wales_makes_priest_appeal\/"},"modified":"2011-05-31T17:00:23","modified_gmt":"2011-05-31T17:00:23","slug":"church_in_wales_makes_priest_appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=26467","title":{"rendered":"Church in Wales makes Priest appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Church in Wales is struggling to recruit new priests, with nearly one in three of clergy expected to go in the next five years.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 166 clergy are due to retire within the half-decade, leaving the Anglican church with the challenge of finding a new generation of leaders at a time of shrinking congregations.<\/p>\n<p>Next week the church will stage a \u201cministry and calling Sunday\u201d\u009d to urge people to consider ordination. It will also encourage people to recommend a life in the church to others they feel have the skills to serve Welsh congregations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.walesonline.co.uk\/news\/wales-news\/2011\/05\/31\/church-makes-priest-appeal-91466-28790955\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Church in Wales is struggling to recruit new priests, with nearly one in three of clergy expected to go in the next five years. A total of 166 clergy are due to retire within the half-decade, leaving the Anglican<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=26467\">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":[36,48,74,405,435,184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-wales","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26467","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=26467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}