{"id":9846,"date":"2008-11-28T19:36:25","date_gmt":"2008-11-28T19:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/back_to_church_sunday_2008_in_the_church_of_england_welcomes_back_37000\/"},"modified":"2008-11-28T19:36:25","modified_gmt":"2008-11-28T19:36:25","slug":"back_to_church_sunday_2008_in_the_church_of_england_welcomes_back_37000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=9846","title":{"rendered":"Back to Church Sunday 2008 in the Church of England welcomes back 37,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back to Church Sunday is celebrating another rise in the numbers drawn back to church by the event this year as organisers gather in London for a special event at Lambeth Palace. Figures based on returns from dioceses suggest that more than 37,000 people took up the invitation to try church again on Sunday 28th September 2008 \u201d\u201c with more than 31,000 of them \u201d\u02dccoming back\u2019 to an Anglican church.<\/p>\n<p>This achievement is being marked with a \u201d\u02dcthank you\u2019 party for people across the country responsible for promoting Back to Church Sunday to local parish churches and encouraging them to extend the warmest welcome to visitors. The day will involve multimedia presentations, buzzgroups, and giveaway treats from the sponsors Traidcraft.<\/p>\n<p>Thirty-eight Church of England dioceses from Cornwall to Newcastle took part this year&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cofe.anglican.org\/news\/pr9408.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back to Church Sunday is celebrating another rise in the numbers drawn back to church by the event this year as organisers gather in London for a special event at Lambeth Palace. Figures based on returns from dioceses suggest that<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=9846\">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":[36,48,74,389,440,184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-evangelism-and-church-growth","category-parish-ministry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9846","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=9846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}