{"id":423,"date":"2015-11-14T18:07:36","date_gmt":"2015-11-14T18:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/15i.48b.myftpupload.com\/?p=423"},"modified":"2015-11-14T18:14:24","modified_gmt":"2015-11-14T18:14:24","slug":"423","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mennonitearchivesofvirginia.net\/?p=423","title":{"rendered":"Pleasant Grove Mennonite Church, Pendleton County, WV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pleasant Grove Mennonite Church had its beginning in 1885, started as a missions outreach of the Northern District churches of the Virginia Mennonite Conference.\u00a0 Today the building is still usable, but no congregation meets there, except for the occasional special service.\u00a0 At the time of this photo, 2015, the pews were still in place inside, with hymnbooks, and a pulpit up front.\u00a0 One hundred and thirty years after it started, the church is closed, begging for research and study on the factors that led to its decline.<br \/>\n<script src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><a title=\"Pleasant Grove Mennonite Church, Sweedlin Valley Rd Pendleton County, WV September 19 2015\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mennonitearchivesofvirginia\/21476215698\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5656\/21476215698_e359b4f6e6_n.jpg\" alt=\"Pleasant Grove Mennonite Church, Sweedlin Valley Rd Pendleton County, WV September 19 2015\" width=\"320\" height=\"213\" \/><\/a><script src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pleasant Grove Mennonite Church had its beginning in 1885, started as a missions outreach of the Northern District churches of the Virginia Mennonite Conference.\u00a0 Today the building is still usable, but no congregation meets there, except for the occasional special service.\u00a0 At the time of this photo, 2015, the pews were still in place inside, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mennonitearchivesofvirginia.net\/?p=423\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pleasant Grove Mennonite Church, Pendleton County, WV<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,4,92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church","category-mennonite","category-virginia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mennonitearchivesofvirginia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mennonitearchivesofvirginia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mennonitearchivesofvirginia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mennonitearchivesofvirginia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mennonitearchivesofvirginia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=423"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mennonitearchivesofvirginia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":426,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mennonitearchivesofvirginia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions\/426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mennonitearchivesofvirginia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mennonitearchivesofvirginia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mennonitearchivesofvirginia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}