{"id":46449,"date":"2014-10-19T23:01:48","date_gmt":"2014-10-19T23:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/presbyterian_church_in_milwaukee_with_roots_in_1800s_to_close\/"},"modified":"2014-10-19T23:01:48","modified_gmt":"2014-10-19T23:01:48","slug":"presbyterian_church_in_milwaukee_with_roots_in_1800s_to_close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46449","title":{"rendered":"Presbyterian church in Milwaukee with roots in 1800s to close"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A struggling Presbyterian congregation with roots going back more than a century has decided to close its doors.<\/p>\n<p>Beset by financial problems \u201d\u201d brought on in part by a for-profit day care center it opened \u201d\u201d New Life Presbyterian Church at 3410 W. Silver Spring Drive voted last month to dissolve itself. The church is the latest iteration of a Milwaukee congregation founded as Newminster Presbyterian in the late 1800s.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the Presbytery of Milwaukee will take up the issue at a special meeting at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Greenfield Avenue Presbyterian Church, 1455 S. 97th St., in West Allis. The presbytery, which has contributed some $250,000 to New Life over the years, will spend an additional $60,000 to get its financial affairs in order.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/news\/religion\/presbyterian-church-in-milwaukee-with-1800s-roots-to-close-b99367758z1-278947241.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A struggling Presbyterian congregation with roots going back more than a century has decided to close its doors. Beset by financial problems \u201d\u201d brought on in part by a for-profit day care center it opened \u201d\u201d New Life Presbyterian Church<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46449\">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":[48,39,42,154,184,417,108,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","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\/46449","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=46449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}