{"id":1065,"date":"2020-08-03T21:03:13","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T21:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disciple4.com\/?p=1065"},"modified":"2023-03-27T21:00:26","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T21:00:26","slug":"then-the-missionaries-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disciple4.com\/index.php\/2020\/08\/03\/then-the-missionaries-left\/","title":{"rendered":"Then the missionaries left"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ever felt that you were working and working on something and then one day everything simply stops and you know it was much ado about nothing. Perhaps a book you were writing, investing time into a project, trying to establish an NGO. Nothing will come from it. It was a waste of time. Maybe the fillowing story will encourage you as it encouraged me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>I visited a country where Christian missionaries were forced to leave more than forty years ago and are still not allowed. When the missionaries left, a few struggling young leaders were in place. The government and the culture were highly anti-Christian. Many of these leaders gave up. But one young man committed himself to making a difference. In the forty-plus years since he was left on his own, he and his team have started more than three thousand churches, mostly underground. (David Watson).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever felt that you were working and working on something and then one day everything simply stops and you know it was much ado about nothing. Perhaps a book you were writing, investing time into a project, trying to establish an NGO. Nothing will come from it. It was a waste of time. Maybe the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/disciple4.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/disciple4.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/disciple4.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disciple4.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disciple4.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/disciple4.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1067,"href":"https:\/\/disciple4.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065\/revisions\/1067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/disciple4.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disciple4.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disciple4.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}