{"id":1048,"date":"2004-07-13T12:44:19","date_gmt":"2004-07-13T16:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=1048"},"modified":"2009-01-20T12:44:47","modified_gmt":"2009-01-20T16:44:47","slug":"church-growth-in-latin-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2004\/07\/church-growth-in-latin-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Church Growth in Latin America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>&#8220;Clutching the Book of Mormon and dressed in a white starched shirt and neatly pressed charcoal colored slacks, Willy Guzman walked across the cracked sidewalks of Zona 6 in Guatemala City to the shiny, white church that rises above the modest and mostly shanty flats of the neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>As it neared 8:00 a.m. Sunday morning, the streets were bustling with men dressed in Western-style suits and women in skirt suits pushing baby strollers, all making their way towards the church.  &#8216;Everyone walks to church,&#8217; Guzman explained, &#8216;so as not to make anyone work on this day of worship.'&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Sound like a paragraph or two from the church news?  Nope &#8212; it&#8217;s the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/5378318\"> lead-in to a very nice article on MSNBC<\/a>, titled &#8220;Mormon Conversions Surge in Latin America.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Clutching the Book of Mormon and dressed in a white starched shirt and neatly pressed charcoal colored slacks, Willy Guzman walked across the cracked sidewalks of Zona 6 in Guatemala City to the shiny, white church that rises above the modest and mostly shanty flats of the neighborhood. As it neared 8:00 a.m. Sunday morning, the streets were bustling with men dressed in Western-style suits and women in skirt suits pushing baby strollers, all making their way towards the church. &#8216;Everyone walks to church,&#8217; Guzman explained, &#8216;so as not to make anyone work on this day of worship.&#8217;&#8221; Sound like a paragraph or two from the church news? Nope &#8212; it&#8217;s the lead-in to a very nice article on MSNBC, titled &#8220;Mormon Conversions Surge in Latin America.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-1048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mormon-life","tag-church-organization-and-structure"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1048"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6565,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions\/6565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}