{"id":48191,"date":"2015-02-02T16:30:13","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T16:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/c_of_e_diocese_of_europe_a_drop-in_center_enables_growth_in_a_spanish_paris\/"},"modified":"2015-02-02T16:30:13","modified_gmt":"2015-02-02T16:30:13","slug":"c_of_e_diocese_of_europe_a_drop-in_center_enables_growth_in_a_spanish_paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48191","title":{"rendered":"(C of E Diocese of Europe) A drop-in center enables growth in a Spanish Parish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When St Christopher\u2019s Church on the Costa Azahar in Spain (the name means Orange Blossom coast) north of Valencia, opened a drop-in centre in Alcossebre a few years ago they called it El Camino \u201d\u201c The Way \u201d\u201c and it has proved to be the way the Anglican church has reached out to residents and visitors in the community.<\/p>\n<p>A friendly welcome is assured and there is a cup of tea or coffee and home-made cakes or savouries in an atmosphere where visitors can relax and learn that Christians do not have two heads and are really a joyful bunch. The centre also stocks second hand books and a selection of clothing and bric-a-brac and the bonus is that it helps to fund the payment of clergy and the general work of the church.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/europe.anglican.org\/news\/news\/post\/834-ait-just-groweda-a-bigger-drop-in-centre-on-the-costa-azahar\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When St Christopher\u2019s Church on the Costa Azahar in Spain (the name means Orange Blossom coast) north of Valencia, opened a drop-in centre in Alcossebre a few years ago they called it El Camino \u201d\u201c The Way \u201d\u201c and it<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48191\">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":[36,48,39,50,74,389,200,440,184,177,108,446,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48191","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-england-coe","category-europe","category-evangelism-and-church-growth","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-religion-culture","category-spain","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48191","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=48191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}