{"id":33469,"date":"2012-07-09T15:25:54","date_gmt":"2012-07-09T15:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/roman_catholic_lay_evangelist_sherry_weddell_episcopalian_attendance_in_us_\/"},"modified":"2012-07-09T15:25:54","modified_gmt":"2012-07-09T15:25:54","slug":"roman_catholic_lay_evangelist_sherry_weddell_episcopalian_attendance_in_us_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33469","title":{"rendered":"(Roman Catholic lay evangelist) Sherry Weddell: Episcopalian Attendance in US Drops 23%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now [for Episcopalians] the apt word seems &#8220;life support&#8221;.<br \/>\nThe average Episcopal Church attendance dropped a staggering 23% in the ten year period between 2000 and 2010 (via Whispers) In 2010, just under 700,000 attended TEC Churches in the whole world.<br \/>\nIn the Seattle area, (Diocese of Olympia) where St. Mark&#8217;s Cathedral still looms and KING FM has broadcast their lovely Sunday evening Compline for many years, average attendance in the whole diocese was 9,500.  9,500?  I&#8217;ve worked in Catholic parishes with larger weekly attendance than that.<br \/>\nThe Episcopalian Diocese of Quincy, IL attendance has dropped 71% and averages 363 people in attendance at 9 parishes.  I&#8217;ve taught Called &#038; Gifted workshops that were larger.  No wonder they are openly talking about reuniting with the Diocese of Chicago (attendance: 12,925).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.siena.org\/July-2012\/episcopalian-attendance-in-us-drops-23\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now [for Episcopalians] the apt word seems &#8220;life support&#8221;. The average Episcopal Church attendance dropped a staggering 23% in the ten year period between 2000 and 2010 (via Whispers) In 2010, just under 700,000 attended TEC Churches in the whole<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=33469\">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":[36,48,661,66,440,378,184,375,380],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-gen-con-2012","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-evangelism-and-church-growth","category-general-convention","category-parish-ministry","category-tec-data","category-tec-parishes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33469","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=33469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}