{"id":32266,"date":"2012-05-01T15:15:09","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T15:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/for_united_methodists_plan_umc_offered_for_agency_restructuring\/"},"modified":"2012-05-01T15:15:09","modified_gmt":"2012-05-01T15:15:09","slug":"for_united_methodists_plan_umc_offered_for_agency_restructuring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=32266","title":{"rendered":"For United Methodists \u201d\u02dcPlan UMC\u2019 offered for agency restructuring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New life exists for the idea of restructuring agencies of the United Methodist Church, with members of various camps having engaged in lengthy, intense negotiations that led to a compromise called \u201cPlan UMC.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were committed to finding a plan that can unify the church,\u201d\u009d said the Rev. Don Underwood, among those who helped work out the new proposal.<\/p>\n<p>Plan UMC abandons the idea of a single board for all program agencies, but creates a strong 45-member General Council for Strategy and Oversight with a focus on supporting vital congregations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unitedmethodistreporter.com\/2012\/04\/plan-umc-offered-for-agency-restructuring\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New life exists for the idea of restructuring agencies of the United Methodist Church, with members of various camps having engaged in lengthy, intense negotiations that led to a compromise called \u201cPlan UMC.\u201d\u009d \u201cWe were committed to finding a plan<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=32266\">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":[42,360,154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion-news-commentary","category-methodist","category-other-churches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32266","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=32266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}