{"id":91967,"date":"2020-04-22T08:00:12","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T12:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=91967"},"modified":"2020-04-21T19:07:43","modified_gmt":"2020-04-21T23:07:43","slug":"local-paper-south-carolina-churches-reaching-the-masses-through-online-services-amid-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=91967","title":{"rendered":"(Local Paper) South Carolina churches reaching the masses through online services amid coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tucked on a short rural street in McClellanville, Greater Howard Chapel is used to seeing about 125 members on a Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>But amid the coronavirus pandemic, the AME congregation is reaching hundreds, if not thousands, more through its online services.<\/p>\n<p>An Easter drive-in worship experience welcomed members who parked cars on a grassy lot as they listened to songs from musicians and a message from the Rev. Leondra Stoney.<\/p>\n<p>About 300 people had tuned in to watch the service live via the church\u2019s Facebook page. By mid-week, the video had more than 7,000 views.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI definitely wasn\u2019t expecting it,\u201d said Stoney, who noted she was more focused during Resurrection Sunday on drive-in logistics, such as maintaining internet access in the rural area.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/health\/covid19\/sc-churches-reaching-the-masses-through-online-services-amid-coronavirus\/article_a59b4b16-80cd-11ea-8a64-1bdc2f3822ca.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Some South Carolina religious institutions are reaching more people through online worship experiences than they did when members sat in the pews.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QKzZ2oBcT7\">https:\/\/t.co\/QKzZ2oBcT7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Post and Courier (@postandcourier) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/postandcourier\/status\/1252658358945034242?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 21, 2020<\/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>Tucked on a short rural street in McClellanville, Greater Howard Chapel is used to seeing about 125 members on a Sunday. But amid the coronavirus pandemic, the AME congregation is reaching hundreds, if not thousands, more through its online services.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=91967\">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":[54,94,183,184,108,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-south-carolina","category-blogging-the-internet","category-liturgy-music-worship","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91967","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=91967"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91971,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91967\/revisions\/91971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}