{"id":855,"date":"2011-12-05T18:03:28","date_gmt":"2011-12-05T18:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/news\/2011\/12\/05\/new-hall-for-witnesses\/"},"modified":"2011-12-05T18:03:28","modified_gmt":"2011-12-05T18:03:28","slug":"new-hall-for-witnesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/new-hall-for-witnesses\/","title":{"rendered":"New hall for Witnesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">MEMBERS of Goole area Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses are all set to move into a new home as work gets underway on a new \u00a3380,000 Kingdom Hall.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">Groundwork is currently being carried out on the site on Manor Road, Old Goole, with hopes high the new building will be ready to move into in the spring of 2012.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">Derek Payne, an Elder, explains that the new meeting place has become necessary thanks to a steadily increasing congregation, which now stands at between 60 and 70 members.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cWe\u2019ve outgrown our hall in Estcourt Street in Goole, which was built in the 1970s. That has now been sold and the money has meant we have been able to pay for the land in Old Goole.\u201d<\/div>\n<p> <!--more--> <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">The rest of the money, for materials and labour has been secured via a loan but will, he says, all be raised within the church community. Members will also pitch in to help actually build the new hall and car park.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">In the meantime, says Mr Payne, the new owner of the hall in Goole, who wishes to remain anonymous, is to allow the group to continue meeting there until their new home is ready.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">http:\/\/www.selbytimes.co.uk<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MEMBERS of Goole area Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses are all set to move into a new home as work gets underway on a new \u00a3380,000 Kingdom Hall. Groundwork is currently being carried out on the site on&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwforum.net\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}