{"id":27696,"date":"2011-08-07T22:46:52","date_gmt":"2011-08-07T22:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/redevelopment_aims_to_welcome_all_to_episcopal_church_in_nw_pennsylvania\/"},"modified":"2011-08-07T22:46:52","modified_gmt":"2011-08-07T22:46:52","slug":"redevelopment_aims_to_welcome_all_to_episcopal_church_in_nw_pennsylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27696","title":{"rendered":"Redevelopment aims to welcome all to Episcopal church in NW Pennsylvania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On a recent hot Sunday morning, 73 people sat down to worship at St. Mark&#8217;s Episcopal Church with the Revs. Don Baxter and Melissa Adzima.<\/p>\n<p>Fans circulated air in the sanctuary where, not too long ago, regular attendance was hitting a high around 40, maybe 50 on a good day.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re hoping to get 100 people by Christmas,&#8221; Adzima said.<\/p>\n<p>The growth at the Millcreek Township church has followed the start of a redevelopment led by the youngest bishop in the Episcopal Church. He&#8217;s created a three-member leadership team at St. Mark&#8217;s that includes one of the youngest Episcopal priests.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goerie.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20110806\/NEWS02\/308059935\/-1\/RSS01\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a recent hot Sunday morning, 73 people sat down to worship at St. Mark&#8217;s Episcopal Church with the Revs. Don Baxter and Melissa Adzima. Fans circulated air in the sanctuary where, not too long ago, regular attendance was hitting<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27696\">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":[36,48,39,66,184,372,380,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-parish-ministry","category-tec-bishops","category-tec-parishes","category-young-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27696","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=27696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}