{"id":58031,"date":"2014-09-18T17:00:44","date_gmt":"2014-09-18T21:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=58031"},"modified":"2014-09-17T10:22:01","modified_gmt":"2014-09-17T14:22:01","slug":"hope-christian-fellowship-to-participate-in-national-back-to-church-sunday-sept-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=58031","title":{"rendered":"Hope Christian Fellowship to Participate in National \u2018Back to Church Sunday\u2019 Sept. 21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/cross-church1-150x150.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-51621\" src=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/cross-church1-150x150-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"cross-church1-150x150\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>(Canastota, NY \u2013 Sept. 2014) \u201cBack to Church\u00a0Sunday,\u201d part of a national movement of churches across America, will be held at Hope Christian Fellowship in Canastota at\u00a010:30 a.m. on Sept. 21. Everyone is welcome to attend.<\/p>\n<p>National \u201cBack to Church\u00a0Sunday\u201d\u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/backtochurch.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.backtochurch.com<\/a>) is an initiative that is \u201cInviting America Back to Church.\u201d It seeks to reach the &#8220;un-churched&#8221; and &#8220;de-churched&#8221;\u2014people who once attended church, but don&#8217;t any more\u2014and invite them to return for a special\u00a0Sunday. Back to Church\u00a0Sunday\u00a0was launched five years ago in response to a survey of 15,000 adults in the United States. Results showed a personal invitation from a family member would prompt 67 percent of Americans to visit a church, and 63 percent said an invitation from a friend or neighbor would cause them to attend a service.<\/p>\n<p>Since its inception, National Back to Church\u00a0Sunday\u00a0participating churches have invited an estimated 7.5 million family members, friends, and neighbors to their churches.<\/p>\n<p>About 20,000 churches are expected to participate this year, inviting more than 2 million visitors.<\/p>\n<p>The American Religious Identification Survey showed that 83 percent of American adults identify themselves as Christians. In contrast, another survey by the Barna Group indicated only about 20 percent of Americans attends church on any given\u00a0Sunday. Back to Church\u00a0Sunday\u2019s\u00a0goal is to invite or re-invite America to rediscover church.<\/p>\n<p>Back to Church\u00a0Sunday\u00a0has an interactive Facebook page <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/backtochurch\" target=\"_blank\">www.facebook.com\/backtochurch<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hope Christian Fellowship is a non-denominational church located at 119 South Peterboro St. in Canastota. For more information, contact Pastor Tom Burgess at\u00a0(315) 463-9737\u00a0ortgb1953@aol.com.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Canastota, NY \u2013 Sept. 2014) \u201cBack to Church\u00a0Sunday,\u201d part of a national movement of churches across America, will be held at Hope Christian Fellowship in Canastota at\u00a010:30 a.m. on Sept. 21. Everyone is welcome to attend. National \u201cBack to Church\u00a0Sunday\u201d\u00a0(www.backtochurch.com) is an initiative that is \u201cInviting America Back to Church.\u201d It seeks to reach the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}