{"id":62128,"date":"2017-08-03T13:10:24","date_gmt":"2017-08-03T17:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=62128"},"modified":"2017-08-03T13:10:51","modified_gmt":"2017-08-03T17:10:51","slug":"lifeway-research-1-in-10-churches-has-had-funds-stolen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=62128","title":{"rendered":"LifeWay Research: 1 in 10 Churches Has Had Funds Stolen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Churches and other faith groups collect tens of billions of donations each year. Chances are some of the money goes missing.<\/p>\n<p>About 1 in 10 Protestant churches has had someone embezzle funds, according to a new survey of 1,000 Protestant senior pastors from Nashville-based LifeWay Research.<\/p>\n<p>That figure isn\u2019t surprising, said Scott McConnell, executive director of LifeWay Research. Most churches rely on volunteers to handle their finances, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Those volunteers are usually honest. But churches often lack systems to catch those who aren\u2019t. As a result, he said, money that could have been used for ministry goes missing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lifewayresearch.com\/2017\/08\/03\/1-in-10-churches-have-had-funds-stolen\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Churches and other faith groups collect tens of billions of donations each year. Chances are some of the money goes missing. About 1 in 10 Protestant churches has had someone embezzle funds, according to a new survey of 1,000 Protestant<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=62128\">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":[168,184,177,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-parish-ministry","category-pastoral-theology","category-stewardship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62128","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=62128"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62130,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62128\/revisions\/62130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}