{"id":276,"date":"2014-04-08T15:08:09","date_gmt":"2014-04-08T22:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hotpepper.ca\/lds\/africa\/?p=276"},"modified":"2014-04-08T15:08:54","modified_gmt":"2014-04-08T22:08:54","slug":"first-official-branches-created-in-tamale-ghana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hotpepper.ca\/lds\/africa\/first-official-branches-created-in-tamale-ghana\/","title":{"rendered":"First official branches created in Tamale, Ghana"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Opened to missionaries in February 2013, Tamale has a population of approximately half a million and is the most northern city in Ghana that has had full-time missionaries assigned. Multiple member groups were organized within the first couple months following the arrival of full-time missionaries in 2013. By early 2014, missionary reports indicated that as many as four member groups appeared to be operating. Few convert baptisms have occurred in the city as approximately 80% of the population is Muslim and missionaries were initially discouraged from teaching Muslims.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/ldschurchgrowth.blogspot.ca\/2014\/04\/first-official-branches-created-in.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed:+LdsChurchGrowth+(LDS+Church+Growth)\">LDS Church Growth<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opened to missionaries in February 2013, Tamale has a population of approximately half a million and is the most northern city in Ghana that has had full-time missionaries assigned. Multiple member groups were organized within the first couple months following the arrival of full-time missionaries in 2013. By early 2014, missionary reports indicated that as &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hotpepper.ca\/lds\/africa\/first-official-branches-created-in-tamale-ghana\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;First official branches created in Tamale, Ghana&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stakes-districts","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p31AuT-4s","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hotpepper.ca\/lds\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hotpepper.ca\/lds\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hotpepper.ca\/lds\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hotpepper.ca\/lds\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hotpepper.ca\/lds\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.hotpepper.ca\/lds\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":277,"href":"http:\/\/www.hotpepper.ca\/lds\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions\/277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hotpepper.ca\/lds\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hotpepper.ca\/lds\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hotpepper.ca\/lds\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}