{"id":75824,"date":"2018-12-04T16:06:28","date_gmt":"2018-12-04T21:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=75824"},"modified":"2018-12-04T17:53:38","modified_gmt":"2018-12-04T22:53:38","slug":"local-paper-front-page-college-requirement-prepares-many-sc-preachers-for-ministry-but-serves-as-barrier-to-some","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=75824","title":{"rendered":"(Local Paper Front Page) College requirement prepares many SC preachers for ministry but serves as barrier to some"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Rev. Rosa Young Singleton didn\u2019t have college, but she had a calling.<\/p>\n<p>Singleton started as a youth minister at a nondenominational church in 2000. But when she went back home to Georgetown\u2019s St. Luke African Methodist Episcopal Church in 2013, she was told that she would need a bachelor\u2019s degree if she wanted to pursue a pastoral ministry.<\/p>\n<p>Raising two children and working, Singleton enrolled at Allen University and commuted from the Lowcountry to Columbia for classes every week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI got weary,\u201d she said. \u201cI was like \u2019Lord, do I really need to go through all of this to preach your gospel?\u2034\u2063<\/p>\n<p>There are many in the faith community who contemplate whether a church has the authority to restrict a person from pursuing God\u2019s calling based on their level of education.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/news\/college-requirement-prepares-many-sc-preachers-for-ministry-but-serves\/article_32c611d0-ef55-11e8-b6fe-dfd47aa16909.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;Lord, do I really need to go through all of this to preach your gospel?&quot;<\/p>\n<p>While college requirements help prepare many SC preachers for ministry, they also create a barrier for some.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QxTwr2NfjE\">https:\/\/t.co\/QxTwr2NfjE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Post and Courier (@postandcourier) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/postandcourier\/status\/1067472390240829440?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 27, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rev. Rosa Young Singleton didn\u2019t have college, but she had a calling. Singleton started as a youth minister at a nondenominational church in 2000. But when she went back home to Georgetown\u2019s St. Luke African Methodist Episcopal Church in<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=75824\">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":[54,111,435,184,167],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-south-carolina","category-education","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-seminary-theological-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75824","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=75824"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75827,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75824\/revisions\/75827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}