{"id":167,"date":"2016-03-17T00:07:52","date_gmt":"2016-03-17T00:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usc2016.nextgenradio.org\/?p=167"},"modified":"2016-03-18T21:15:23","modified_gmt":"2016-03-18T21:15:23","slug":"financial-advisers-or-pastors-in-south-l-a-theyre-both","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usc2016.nextgenradio.org\/index.php\/2016\/03\/17\/financial-advisers-or-pastors-in-south-l-a-theyre-both\/","title":{"rendered":"Financial advisers or pastors? In South L.A., they&#8217;re both"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Black church should help congregants with finances\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/l2FPc0nbykI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For Mark Whitlock, a full-time pastor for more than 20 years, churches in black communities are more than just places to hear the gospel.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re places for African Americans, particularly those living in the low-income neighborhood of South Los Angeles, to hear money lessons.<\/p>\n<p>Pastors need to prepare themselves to help people, Whitlock says. Some trust their local church more than watching CNBC or reading the Wall Street Journal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If the church doesn\u2019t have the capacity to do it then the church\u2019s responsibility is to guide that member in the right direction with a banker or a financial planner,&#8221; Whitlock says.<\/p>\n<p>Whitlock\u00a0is the executive director at the Cecil Murray Center for Community Engagement.<\/p>\n<p>The center runs the Faith Leaders Institute, which helps connect pastors with resources South L.A. residents need.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Mark Whitlock, a full-time pastor for more than 20 years, churches in black communities are more than just places to hear the gospel. They&#8217;re places for African Americans, particularly those living in the low-income neighborhood of South Los Angeles, to hear money lessons. Pastors need to prepare themselves to help people, Whitlock says. Some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,4,12],"tags":[20,38,36,37,22],"coauthors":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usc2016.nextgenradio.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usc2016.nextgenradio.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usc2016.nextgenradio.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usc2016.nextgenradio.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usc2016.nextgenradio.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usc2016.nextgenradio.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usc2016.nextgenradio.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usc2016.nextgenradio.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usc2016.nextgenradio.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usc2016.nextgenradio.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usc2016.nextgenradio.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}