{"id":39642,"date":"2013-08-20T01:01:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T01:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/a_roanoke_virginia_anglican_church_goes_high-tech_to_spread_the_gospel\/"},"modified":"2013-08-20T01:01:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-20T01:01:00","slug":"a_roanoke_virginia_anglican_church_goes_high-tech_to_spread_the_gospel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=39642","title":{"rendered":"A Roanoke, Virginia,  Anglican church goes high-tech to spread the gospel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Dude, I preached from an iPad the week the first iPad came out,&#8221; [Quigg] Lawrence said. &#8220;I wasn&#8217;t trying to be showy with it, but a lot of times my printer is down or I don&#8217;t have ink. So it&#8217;s just easier to put it on the iPad.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Church of the Holy Spirit, the Anglican ministry in southwest Roanoke County where Lawrence preaches, is one of the only churches in the area with its own smartphone app designed to serve its members.<\/p>\n<p>The app has been downloaded 880 times in the year it has been available \u201d\u201d not bad considering the congregation consists of less than 1,500 members.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tricities.com\/news\/article_a6689d48-0751-11e3-8380-001a4bcf6878.html\">Read it all<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coths.org\">church website is there<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Dude, I preached from an iPad the week the first iPad came out,&#8221; [Quigg] Lawrence said. &#8220;I wasn&#8217;t trying to be showy with it, but a lot of times my printer is down or I don&#8217;t have ink. So it&#8217;s<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=39642\">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":[36,48,39,63,74,94,408,66,184,108,95,376,647],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-anglican-church-in-north-america-acna","category-anglican-provinces","category-blogging-the-internet","category-church-of-rwanda","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-science-technology","category-tec-conflicts","category-tec-departing-parishes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39642","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=39642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}