{"id":630,"date":"2020-03-18T14:29:23","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T21:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hotpepper.ca\/lds\/africa\/?p=630"},"modified":"2020-03-18T14:29:23","modified_gmt":"2020-03-18T21:29:23","slug":"new-district-created-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hotpepper.ca\/lds\/africa\/new-district-created-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"New district created in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The Church organized a new district in South African on February 2nd. The Klerksdorp South Africa District was organized from three mission branches in the South Africa Johannesburg Mission, including the Jouberton, Klerksdorp, and Potchefstroom Branches. The newest of these three branches, the Potchefstroom Branch, was organized in 2003, whereas the Klerksdorp Branch has operated since 1966. This area of South Africa on the outskirts of Johannesburg has experienced slow growth. However, the organization of the district may indicate improvements in local leadership development and increases in active membership to warrant the organization of a district. One of the branches in the new district had approximately 50 active members in late 2016 per a report from a local member.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/ldschurchgrowth.blogspot.com\/2020\/02\/three-new-stakes-created-in-utah-new.html\">Growth of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church)<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Church organized a new district in South African on February 2nd. The Klerksdorp South Africa District was organized from three mission branches in the South Africa Johannesburg Mission, including the Jouberton, Klerksdorp, and Potchefstroom Branches. The newest of these three branches, the Potchefstroom Branch, was organized in 2003, whereas the Klerksdorp Branch has operated &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hotpepper.ca\/lds\/africa\/new-district-created-in-south-africa\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New district created in South Africa&#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-630","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-aa","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hotpepper.ca\/lds\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630","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=630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.hotpepper.ca\/lds\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":631,"href":"http:\/\/www.hotpepper.ca\/lds\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630\/revisions\/631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hotpepper.ca\/lds\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hotpepper.ca\/lds\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hotpepper.ca\/lds\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}