{"id":57117,"date":"2017-01-20T16:00:43","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T16:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/church_times_commissioners_funds_boost_evangelical_plants\/"},"modified":"2017-01-20T16:00:43","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T16:00:43","slug":"church_times_commissioners_funds_boost_evangelical_plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=57117","title":{"rendered":"(Church Times) Commissioners\u2019 funds boost Evangelical plants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A further \u00c2\u00a39 million has been distributed to dioceses by the Church Commissioners as part of the drive to achieve statistical growth.<\/p>\n<p>Church-planting by Evangelical churches, and efforts to address the absence of children from the pews, are among the trends that will benefit from a financial boost.<\/p>\n<p>The largest grant \u201d\u201d \u00c2\u00a32.5 million \u201d\u201d will go the diocese of Birmingham, for its work with younger people. The diocese, which has the lowest church attendance to population in the country, and the lowest level of stipendiary clergy per capita, has already received \u00c2\u00a31 million towards its \u201cGrowing Younger 2015-19\u201d\u009d work. By 2022, it seeks to plant 15 new churches, \u201cmake over 1000 new disciples\u201d\u009d, and train up to 1000 \u201cmissional leaders\u201d\u009d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2017\/20-january\/news\/uk\/commissioners-funds-boost-evangelical-plants\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A further \u00c2\u00a39 million has been distributed to dioceses by the Church Commissioners as part of the drive to achieve statistical growth. Church-planting by Evangelical churches, and efforts to address the absence of children from the pews, are among the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=57117\">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":[36,48,39,50,74,389,199,440,184,108,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57117","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-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-england-uk","category-evangelism-and-church-growth","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-stewardship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57117","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=57117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}