{"id":96827,"date":"2020-11-13T16:01:05","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T21:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=96827"},"modified":"2020-11-13T17:52:11","modified_gmt":"2020-11-13T22:52:11","slug":"c-of-e-a-curate-takes-worship-into-whole-new-dimension-with-childrens-services-in-minecraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=96827","title":{"rendered":"(C of E) A Curate takes worship into whole new dimension &#8211; with children\u2019s services in Minecraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As churches rose to the challenge of moving services online amid Covid-19 restrictions this year, one curate has gone step further in efforts to engage with young members of her congregation \u2013 by taking worship inside a video game. <\/p>\n<p>The Revd Jo Burden, who recently joined West Hereford Team Ministry, in the Diocese of Hereford, came up with the idea of reaching out to children on a platform they were familiar with \u2013 Minecraft.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchofengland.org\/news-and-media\/stories-and-features\/curate-takes-worship-whole-new-dimension-childrens-services\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WestHereford?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@WestHereford<\/a> church has brought worship to where children are &#8211; inside a video game.<\/p>\n<p>Rev Jo Burden has asked young people to create something in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Minecraft?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Minecraft<\/a> that reflects the theme of each Sunday service.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/w4rHp3ov7X\">https:\/\/t.co\/w4rHp3ov7X<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Church of England (@churchofengland) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/churchofengland\/status\/1326909118054080513?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 12, 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>As churches rose to the challenge of moving services online amid Covid-19 restrictions this year, one curate has gone step further in efforts to engage with young members of her congregation \u2013 by taking worship inside a video game. The<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=96827\">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":[101,389,435,184,108,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-children","category-church-of-england-coe","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96827","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=96827"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96830,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96827\/revisions\/96830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}