{"id":36653,"date":"2013-01-08T02:20:32","date_gmt":"2013-01-08T02:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/two_western_massachusetts_episcopal_congregations_band_together_to_survive\/"},"modified":"2013-01-08T02:20:32","modified_gmt":"2013-01-08T02:20:32","slug":"two_western_massachusetts_episcopal_congregations_band_together_to_survive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=36653","title":{"rendered":"Two Western Massachusetts Episcopal congregations band together to survive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two long-established Episcopal congregations have become one in an effort to continue their South County ministries and eventually build a new church.<\/p>\n<p>St. George&#8217;s Episcopal Church of Lee and St. James Episcopal Church of Great Barrington have merged, spiritually and financially, to become Grace Church.<\/p>\n<p>The Rev. Frances A. Hill is the church rector, having been St. James&#8217; rector for nearly five years and vicar of St. George&#8217;s for two years.<\/p>\n<p>On Jan. 20, the newly formed 91-member congregation is scheduled to hold its inaugural meeting to elect lay leaders and conduct other church business.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berkshireeagle.com\/ci_22323526\/two-south-county-episcopal-congregations-band-together-survive\">Read it all<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two long-established Episcopal congregations have become one in an effort to continue their South County ministries and eventually build a new church. St. George&#8217;s Episcopal Church of Lee and St. James Episcopal Church of Great Barrington have merged, spiritually and<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=36653\">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-36653","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\/36653","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=36653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}