{"id":55085,"date":"2016-07-13T15:01:40","date_gmt":"2016-07-13T15:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/two_diocese_of_algoma_anglican_churches_to_merge\/"},"modified":"2016-07-13T15:01:40","modified_gmt":"2016-07-13T15:01:40","slug":"two_diocese_of_algoma_anglican_churches_to_merge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=55085","title":{"rendered":"Two Diocese of Algoma Anglican Churches to Merge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The two will become one.<\/p>\n<p>Two local Diocese of Algoma Anglican Church communities will come together later this summer when congregations from St. John The Evangelist and St. Matthew&#8217;s merge to form a new faith community that will be called Emmaus Anglican Church.<\/p>\n<p>Rev. Patrick McManus, full-time pastor at St. Matthew&#8217;s, said the move is more than a merger because the two existing churches will legally be dissolved Aug. 31, and a completely new church, Emmaus, will be created Sept. 1.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s a real risk for everyone involved. It feels like an adventure,\u201d\u009d said McManus, who has ministered at St. Matthew&#8217;s since December 2009.<\/p>\n<p>McManus said his congregation his very active and is primed for \u201cthis sort of adventure.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>The launch date for the Emmaus Church is set for Sept. 11<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saultstar.com\/2016\/07\/12\/st-john-the-evangelist-st-matthews-dissolve-to-form-emmaus-anglican-church\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The two will become one. Two local Diocese of Algoma Anglican Church communities will come together later this summer when congregations from St. John The Evangelist and St. Matthew&#8217;s merge to form a new faith community that will be called<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=55085\">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":[36,48,39,50,388,74,207,184,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55085","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-church-of-canada","category-anglican-provinces","category-canada","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55085","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=55085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}