{"id":6312,"date":"2008-05-24T22:52:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-24T22:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/the_anglican_church_of_barbados_bears_witness_on_facebook\/"},"modified":"2008-05-24T22:52:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-24T22:52:00","slug":"the_anglican_church_of_barbados_bears_witness_on_facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=6312","title":{"rendered":"The Anglican Church of Barbados bears Witness on Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Anglican Church has launched a programme on one of the fastest-growing and best-known Internet sites, Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>This was revealed by Bishop Dr John Holder in his charge of the annual Synod delivered last Sunday at St Michael&#8217;s Cathedral, as part of the diocese&#8217;s effort to pay close attention to the nation&#8217;s youth.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are trying new and creative ways to strengthen our ministry to the youth,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We are using the new technology to assist us in doing so. Mr Haydn Workman of the Evangelism Commission has developed a programme on Facebook that is reaching out to young people and helping them to reflect on the Christian way.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Given the fascination of our young people with the new technology, this is a good way to share and strengthen the faith among our young people,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationnews.com\/story\/50949528097545.php\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Anglican Church has launched a programme on one of the fastest-growing and best-known Internet sites, Facebook. This was revealed by Bishop Dr John Holder in his charge of the annual Synod delivered last Sunday at St Michael&#8217;s Cathedral, as<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=6312\">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":[36,48,39,72,94,440,184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-anglican-latest-news","category-blogging-the-internet","category-evangelism-and-church-growth","category-parish-ministry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6312","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=6312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}