{"id":30223,"date":"2012-01-10T03:30:47","date_gmt":"2012-01-10T03:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/toledo_ohio_blade_historic_st-_marks_episcopal_trinity_downtown_to_merge\/"},"modified":"2012-01-10T03:30:47","modified_gmt":"2012-01-10T03:30:47","slug":"toledo_ohio_blade_historic_st-_marks_episcopal_trinity_downtown_to_merge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=30223","title":{"rendered":"(Toledo, [Ohio], Blade) Historic St. Mark&#39;s Episcopal, Trinity downtown to merge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Changing demographics, a declining and aging membership, and economic pressures forced the congregation to make some tough decisions, and rather than close completely or move to the suburbs, it voted to merge with another historic Toledo church, Trinity Episcopal downtown.<\/p>\n<p>Friday&#8217;s service, being held on the Feast of the Epiphany, in some ways marks the completion of a circle for the two congregations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s interesting that St. Mark&#8217;s began as a mission Sunday school of Trinity Church, actually beginning in the rectory of Trinity Church in 1888,&#8221; said Ohio Bishop Mark Hollingsworth, Jr., who will preside at the evensong service.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.toledoblade.com\/Religion\/2012\/01\/06\/Historic-St-Mark-s-Episcopal-Trinity-downtown-to-merge.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Changing demographics, a declining and aging membership, and economic pressures forced the congregation to make some tough decisions, and rather than close completely or move to the suburbs, it voted to merge with another historic Toledo church, Trinity Episcopal downtown.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=30223\">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":[36,48,66,184,380],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-parish-ministry","category-tec-parishes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30223","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=30223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}