{"id":48441,"date":"2015-02-17T19:00:09","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T19:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/christian_post_two_megachurches_that_have_thriving_singles_ministries\/"},"modified":"2015-02-17T19:00:09","modified_gmt":"2015-02-17T19:00:09","slug":"christian_post_two_megachurches_that_have_thriving_singles_ministries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48441","title":{"rendered":"(Christian Post) Two Megachurches That Have Thriving Singles Ministries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The head of a North Carolina-based organization that aids ministries for singles has said that too many churches consider the unmarried to be &#8220;invisible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kris Swiatocho, director of The Singles Network Ministries, told The Christian Post that &#8220;for most churches single adults are invisible. Mainly because most pastors, secretaries, deacons\/elders are married with children. When they are in the pulpit they typically preach and identify with those that are like themselves.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have actually spoken with churches who are not sure they have any singles there mainly because they view singleness has a particular age-range vs. someone who isn&#8217;t married from 18 to the grave.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/news\/why-singles-are-invisible-in-many-churches-two-megachurches-that-have-thriving-single-ministries-134070\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The head of a North Carolina-based organization that aids ministries for singles has said that too many churches consider the unmarried to be &#8220;invisible.&#8221; Kris Swiatocho, director of The Singles Network Ministries, told The Christian Post that &#8220;for most churches<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48441\">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":[48,39,184,34,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-parish-ministry","category-theology","category-young-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48441","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=48441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}