{"id":78972,"date":"2019-02-26T08:30:29","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T13:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=78972"},"modified":"2019-02-26T18:32:41","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T23:32:41","slug":"telegraph-thirty-six-per-cent-of-anglican-congregations-have-no-parishioners-under-16-years-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=78972","title":{"rendered":"(Telegraph) Thirty six per cent of Anglican congregations have no parishioners under 16-years-old"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"m_first-letter m_first-letter--flagged\">T<\/span>hirty six per cent of Anglican congregations have no parishioners under 16-years-old, the Church of England has revealed.<\/p>\n<p>Describing the situation as \u201cshocking\u201d Canon Mark Russell, chief executive of the Church Army, told the Church\u2019s General Synod that only six per cent of Anglican churches have more than 25 under 16-year-olds.<\/p>\n<p>The new figures came during <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2019\/02\/21\/churches-no-longer-legally-required-conduct-service-every-sunday\/\">the Synod debate<\/a> on the future of youth evangelism in England, in which the Church agreed to prioritise recruiting more youth workers and being inclusive of LGBT teenagers.<\/p>\n<p>Lucy Gorman, a parishioner from the Diocese of York, said diversity and inclusion is an issue within the Church\u2019s recruitment problem, adding: \u201cWhen one in 25 young people identify as lesbian, gay or bisexual we need to speak into the silence and connect with them to include them in the life of the Church.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2019\/02\/23\/thirty-six-per-cent-anglican-congregations-have-no-parishioners\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"und\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VO1IzY5BsG\">https:\/\/t.co\/VO1IzY5BsG<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zikzwPQE1h\">https:\/\/t.co\/zikzwPQE1h<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jorge J Takahashi &#x1f397; (@j_puentealto) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/j_puentealto\/status\/1099630123081445376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 24, 2019<\/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>Thirty six per cent of Anglican congregations have no parishioners under 16-years-old, the Church of England has revealed. Describing the situation as \u201cshocking\u201d Canon Mark Russell, chief executive of the Church Army, told the Church\u2019s General Synod that only six<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=78972\">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":[389,184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-england-coe","category-parish-ministry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78972","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=78972"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78974,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78972\/revisions\/78974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}