{"id":53293,"date":"2016-02-10T01:20:29","date_gmt":"2016-02-10T01:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/presbyterian_church_usa_on_track_to_lose_over_400k_members_by_2020\/"},"modified":"2016-02-10T01:20:29","modified_gmt":"2016-02-10T01:20:29","slug":"presbyterian_church_usa_on_track_to_lose_over_400k_members_by_2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=53293","title":{"rendered":"Presbyterian Church (USA) on Track to Lose Over 400K Members by 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Presbyterian Church (USA) is expecting to see a loss of over 400,000 members between 2015 and 2020, according to a reported internal document.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe slide [from the meeting] also showed that COGA is predicting membership losses of 100,000 for both 2015 and 2016,\u201d\u009d reported The Layman.<\/p>\n<p> PCUSA\u2019s Office of the General Assembly and Presbyterian Mission Agency Board Executive Committee held a meeting last Wednesday when projected losses were discussed, according to a recent account by the conservative Presbyterian publication The Layman.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/news\/pcusa-presbyterian-denomination-lose-over-400-thousand-members-by-2020-157099\">Read it all<\/a> from the Christian Post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Presbyterian Church (USA) is expecting to see a loss of over 400,000 members between 2015 and 2020, according to a reported internal document. \u201cThe slide [from the meeting] also showed that COGA is predicting membership losses of 100,000 for both<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=53293\">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":[48,39,50,42,209,154,184,417,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-presbyterian","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53293","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=53293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}