{"id":40879,"date":"2013-11-04T01:28:11","date_gmt":"2013-11-04T01:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/out_of_the_pulpit_onto_the_pavement_new_pastor_at_methodist_church_looks_to\/"},"modified":"2013-11-04T01:28:11","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T01:28:11","slug":"out_of_the_pulpit_onto_the_pavement_new_pastor_at_methodist_church_looks_to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40879","title":{"rendered":"&#39;Out of the pulpit, onto the pavement&#39;: New pastor at Methodist church looks to help Trenton&#39;s poor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At Turning Point United Methodist Church, there are hot meals for the hungry, roundtables for women and after-school programs for children \u201d\u201d and for the downtrodden there is hope.<\/p>\n<p>Led by their newly installed pastor, the Rev. Annie Allen, the church has taken on an increasingly involved role in reaching out to the city\u2019s poor in spirit.<\/p>\n<p>Allen has called on her background in social services and government for her new mission. She has worked by a favorite, oft-repeated statement: \u201cOut of the pulpit, onto the pavement.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love the cities, and I\u2019m not afraid to be in the cities,\u201d\u009d Allen said. \u201cI want to nurture our community and be seen to be part of downtown Trenton.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nj.com\/mercer\/index.ssf\/2013\/11\/out_of_the_pulpit_onto_the_pavement_new_pastor_at_methodist_church_looks_to_help_trentons_poor.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Turning Point United Methodist Church, there are hot meals for the hungry, roundtables for women and after-school programs for children \u201d\u201d and for the downtrodden there is hope. Led by their newly installed pastor, the Rev. Annie Allen, the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40879\">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":[48,39,42,360,435,154,184,88,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-methodist","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-poverty","category-urbancity-life-and-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40879","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=40879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}