{"id":30779,"date":"2012-02-11T02:08:29","date_gmt":"2012-02-11T02:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/historic_episcopal_church_in_n-c-_may_give_way_to_a_thriving_baptist_parish\/"},"modified":"2012-02-11T02:08:29","modified_gmt":"2012-02-11T02:08:29","slug":"historic_episcopal_church_in_n-c-_may_give_way_to_a_thriving_baptist_parish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=30779","title":{"rendered":"Historic Episcopal Church in N.C. may give way to a thriving Baptist Parish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>St. Philip&#8217;s Episcopal Church, an architecturally important and beloved part of downtown Germanton for generations, may be torn apart, moved and rebuilt to house a congregation in Carrboro that needs a place to worship.<\/p>\n<p>Germanton Baptist Church, which sits next to the Episcopal church, is buying the land from the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina, said the Rev. Jeff Stephens of the Baptist church.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our church is experiencing significant growth,&#8221; said Stephens, who came to the church in January 2011. &#8220;And for the Episcopal diocese to approach us about purchasing the property is an exciting opportunity because we are in desperate need of some room to grow.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www2.journalnow.com\/news\/2012\/feb\/10\/wsmain01-new-life-for-an-old-church-ar-1913720\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. Philip&#8217;s Episcopal Church, an architecturally important and beloved part of downtown Germanton for generations, may be torn apart, moved and rebuilt to house a congregation in Carrboro that needs a place to worship. Germanton Baptist Church, which sits next<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=30779\">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":[36,48,40,42,422,149,66,600,154,184,380],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-economics-politics","category-religion-news-commentary","category-baptists","category-economy","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-housingreal-estate-market","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-tec-parishes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30779","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=30779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}