{"id":51881,"date":"2015-10-01T17:30:22","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T17:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/archbishop_commissions_credit_champions_to_help_churches_support_people_str\/"},"modified":"2015-10-01T17:30:22","modified_gmt":"2015-10-01T17:30:22","slug":"archbishop_commissions_credit_champions_to_help_churches_support_people_str","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51881","title":{"rendered":"Archbishop Welby commissions Credit Champions to help churches support people struggling with money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The church has heard a fresh call to be \u201ca church of the poor for the poor\u201d\u009d in recent years, the Archbishop of Canterbury said last night as he commissioned volunteers to help churches engage with issues of credit and debt in their communities.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking during a special service at St George-in-the-East in Shadwell, London, the Archbishop told more than 50 volunteers \u201d\u201c who have taken part in a pilot scheme in London, Southwark and Liverpool dioceses \u201d\u201c that they had \u201cseen the need, and met it with love, grace and hope.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>The first phase of the Archbishop of Canterbury\u2019s Church Credit Champions Network is on course to secure benefits worth over \u00c2\u00a32million for local communities.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archbishopofcanterbury.org\/articles.php\/5619\/churches-are-helping-those-in-debt-with-love-grace-and-hope-says-archbishop\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The church has heard a fresh call to be \u201ca church of the poor for the poor\u201d\u009d in recent years, the Archbishop of Canterbury said last night as he commissioned volunteers to help churches engage with issues of credit and<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51881\">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":[36,39,40,50,382,67,582,149,199,168,593,108,585,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-justin-welby","category-archbishop-of-canterbury","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-economy","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-personal-finance","category-religion-culture","category-the-banking-systemsector","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51881","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=51881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}