{"id":48,"date":"2011-07-06T00:58:16","date_gmt":"2011-07-06T00:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=48"},"modified":"2014-12-16T11:22:03","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T17:22:03","slug":"from-parson-to-person-a-minister-writes-his-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=48","title":{"rendered":"From Parson to Person. A minister writes his people:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Friend:<\/p>\n<p>Our church Membership                                                                1400<br \/>\nNonresident Membership                                                                   75<br \/>\nBalance left to do the work                                                             1325<br \/>\nElderly folks who have done their share in the past                      25<br \/>\nBalance left to do the work                                                             1300<br \/>\nSick and shut-in folks                                                                           25<br \/>\nBalance left to do the work                                                              1275<br \/>\nMembers who do not pledge                                                            350<br \/>\nBalance left to do the work                                                               925<br \/>\nChristmas &amp; Easter Members                                                          300<br \/>\nBalance left to do the work                                                               625<br \/>\nMembers who are too tired or overworked                                  300<br \/>\nBalance left to do the work                                                               325<br \/>\nAlibiers                                                                                                 200<br \/>\nBalance left to do the work                                                                125<br \/>\nMembers who are too busy somewhere else                                  123<br \/>\nBalance left to do the work                                                                    2<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Just you and me &#8211; and, brother, you&#8217;d better get busy, for it&#8217;s too much for me!&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Friend: Our church Membership 1400 Nonresident Membership 75 Balance left to do the work 1325 Elderly folks who have done their share in the past 25 Balance left to do the work 1300 Sick and shut-in folks 25 Balance left to do the work 1275 Members who do not pledge 350 Balance left to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-illustrations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1708,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions\/1708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}