{"id":26907,"date":"2011-06-24T15:15:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-24T15:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/further_on_the_rector_of_trinity_church_in_columbus_resigns\/"},"modified":"2011-06-24T15:15:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-24T15:15:00","slug":"further_on_the_rector_of_trinity_church_in_columbus_resigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=26907","title":{"rendered":"Further on the Rector of Trinity Episcopal Church in Columbus, Georgia resigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Smith, Trinity\u2019s senior warden since January, said a recent assessment of the congregation, involving an outside consultant, looked at the strengths and weaknesses of the church. About 40 people were interviewed, he said. They included current and former members, and of varying ages. One component Trinity looked at was membership.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe demographic most people are interested in is the 20-40 year olds with children. &#8230; and not just that group but (recruiting) new members across the board,\u201d\u009d he said.<\/p>\n<p>A result was that [Rich] Martindale resigned.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ledger-enquirer.com\/2011\/06\/23\/1629902\/trinity-episcopal-church-rev-rich.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Smith, Trinity\u2019s senior warden since January, said a recent assessment of the congregation, involving an outside consultant, looked at the strengths and weaknesses of the church. About 40 people were interviewed, he said. They included current and former members,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=26907\">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":[36,48,66,437,435,184,177,380,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-ministry-of-the-laity","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-tec-parishes","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26907","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=26907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}