{"id":54581,"date":"2016-06-01T01:00:01","date_gmt":"2016-06-01T01:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/8_episcopal_parishes_in_new_haven_consider_future_as_congregations_shrink_c\/"},"modified":"2016-06-01T01:00:01","modified_gmt":"2016-06-01T01:00:01","slug":"8_episcopal_parishes_in_new_haven_consider_future_as_congregations_shrink_c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=54581","title":{"rendered":"8 Episcopal parishes in New Haven consider future as congregations shrink, costs grow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> St. Andrew\u2019s Episcopal Church in New\u00c2\u00adhallville is confronting questions about its very existence, but it is not alone.<\/p>\n<p>Eight Episcopal parishes in New Haven have been engaged in talks at the diocesan offices in Meriden about their future. Like all of the so-called mainline Protestant denominations, the Episcopal Church is dealing with the decline in churchgoers while many parishes are weighed down with expensive, if beautiful, churches.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have until Dec. 4 really to resolve several issues that we have to address,\u201d\u009d said Lou Campbell, senior warden of St. Andrew\u2019s. These include \u201ca deficit that accumulated over many, many years \u201d\u00a6 and also we don\u2019t have a priest so we have to start moving toward getting a priest.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhregister.com\/general-news\/20160530\/8-episcopal-parishes-in-new-haven-consider-future-as-congregations-shrink-costs-grow\">Read it all<\/a> from the New Haven Register.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. Andrew\u2019s Episcopal Church in New\u00c2\u00adhallville is confronting questions about its very existence, but it is not alone. Eight Episcopal parishes in New Haven have been engaged in talks at the diocesan offices in Meriden about their future. Like all<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=54581\">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":[36,48,66,184,441,380],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-parish-ministry","category-stewardship","category-tec-parishes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54581","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=54581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}