{"id":44323,"date":"2014-05-29T05:00:07","date_gmt":"2014-05-29T05:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/presbyterians_plan_to_buy_lutheran_church_in_charleston_west_virginia\/"},"modified":"2014-05-29T05:00:07","modified_gmt":"2014-05-29T05:00:07","slug":"presbyterians_plan_to_buy_lutheran_church_in_charleston_west_virginia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44323","title":{"rendered":"Presbyterians plan to buy Lutheran church in Charleston, West Virginia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although parishioners at St. Paul Evangelical Lutheran Church held their last service there in November, hymns might be heard again from the nearly 100-year-old church as soon as this fall. Riverview Presbyterian Church, now on Kanawha Boulevard, plans to buy the church building and move in.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt had always been the hope of folks from St. Paul and Trinity [Evangelical Lutheran Church] that it would be purchased by a church or a community organization, so this is a real godsend,\u201d\u009d said Trinity Lutheran\u2019s Rev. Randy Richardson.<\/p>\n<p>The Trinity and St. Paul congregations joined last year because of St. Paul\u2019s dwindling membership. There were only about 40 voting members when the church closed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wvgazette.com\/article\/20140522\/GZ01\/140529681\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although parishioners at St. Paul Evangelical Lutheran Church held their last service there in November, hymns might be heard again from the nearly 100-year-old church as soon as this fall. Riverview Presbyterian Church, now on Kanawha Boulevard, plans to buy<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44323\">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":[48,39,40,42,149,600,363,154,184,417,108,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-religion-news-commentary","category-economy","category-housingreal-estate-market","category-lutheran","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-presbyterian","category-religion-culture","category-urbancity-life-and-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44323","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=44323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}