{"id":35654,"date":"2012-11-14T02:04:18","date_gmt":"2012-11-14T02:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/st-_georges_spesutia_marylands_oldest_episcopal_parish_to_end_worship_servi\/"},"modified":"2012-11-14T02:04:18","modified_gmt":"2012-11-14T02:04:18","slug":"st-_georges_spesutia_marylands_oldest_episcopal_parish_to_end_worship_servi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35654","title":{"rendered":"St. George&#39;s Spesutia, Maryland&#39;s oldest Episcopal parish, to end worship services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>St. George&#8217;s Spesutia Parish in Perryman, the oldest Episcopal parish in Maryland, will suspend holding worship services effective at the end of the year, the Bishop of Maryland has informed parishioners.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter dated Nov. 1, the Right Rev. Eugene Taylor Sutton, explained the decision to members of the parish, which has been in continuous operation since 1671.<\/p>\n<p>Sutton&#8217;s letter, a copy of which was provided to The Aegis by a parishioner, cited a lack of attendance at Sunday worship services, a lack of income from the collection plate and pledges &#8220;to sustain a parish financially with your buildings and grounds, let alone to sustain a thriving ministry&#8221; and the likelihood that the parish&#8217;s investments would be depleted within four years if the financial situation continued.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/explore\/harford\/publications\/the-aegis\/ph-ag-st-georges-closing-1109-20121108,0,854607.story\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. George&#8217;s Spesutia Parish in Perryman, the oldest Episcopal parish in Maryland, will suspend holding worship services effective at the end of the year, the Bishop of Maryland has informed parishioners. In a letter dated Nov. 1, the Right Rev.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35654\">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-35654","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\/35654","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=35654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}