{"id":44675,"date":"2014-06-19T15:45:50","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T15:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/church_of_ireland_must_take_long-term_realistic_approach_to_mission\/"},"modified":"2014-06-19T15:45:50","modified_gmt":"2014-06-19T15:45:50","slug":"church_of_ireland_must_take_long-term_realistic_approach_to_mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44675","title":{"rendered":"Church of Ireland must take long-term realistic approach to mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of Ireland Archbishop of Armagh Dr Richard Clarke says the Anglican Church must take a long-term approach to its mission in Ireland over the next twenty years which should be based on reality rather than wishful thinking.<\/p>\n<p>The Primate made the comments as the results of a parish-based census, commissioned by the General Synod in 2012 and carried out last November, were released.<\/p>\n<p>The survey shows that average attendance at worship on a \u201d\u02dcusual\u2019 Sunday was 58,000 people \u201d\u201c 15 per cent of those reporting as Church of Ireland in the 2011 national Censuses.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.londonderrysentinel.co.uk\/news\/local-news\/church-must-take-long-term-realistic-approach-to-mission-1-6129824\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of Ireland Archbishop of Armagh Dr Richard Clarke says the Anglican Church must take a long-term approach to its mission in Ireland over the next twenty years which should be based on reality rather than wishful thinking. The<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44675\">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":[36,48,39,50,74,409,199,325,184,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-ireland","category-england-uk","category-ireland","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44675","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=44675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}