{"id":4024,"date":"2008-01-14T01:40:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-14T01:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/down_under_farmers_teachers_fill_clergy_gaps\/"},"modified":"2008-01-14T01:40:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-14T01:40:00","slug":"down_under_farmers_teachers_fill_clergy_gaps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=4024","title":{"rendered":"Down Under Farmers, teachers fill clergy gaps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A LACK of priests and ministers in rural Victoria has forced farmers and teachers to take to the pulpit to conduct church services.<\/p>\n<p>Ordained ministers from Australia&#8217;s three major Christian denominations are working more than 50 hours a week to meet the spiritual needs of rural communities.<\/p>\n<p>But an ageing clergy and the tyranny of distance have left many rural parishes without a full-time priest or minister.<\/p>\n<p>A recent study found that 14 per cent of rural Protestant and Anglican churches around Australia have adopted a lay church leader in the past five years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/heraldsun\/story\/0,21985,23047447-2862,00.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A LACK of priests and ministers in rural Victoria has forced farmers and teachers to take to the pulpit to conduct church services. Ordained ministers from Australia&#8217;s three major Christian denominations are working more than 50 hours a week to<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=4024\">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":[36,48,50,395,74,204,184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-international-news-commentary","category-anglican-church-of-australia","category-anglican-provinces","category-australia-nz","category-parish-ministry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4024","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=4024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}