{"id":10077,"date":"2021-05-05T11:37:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T15:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=10077"},"modified":"2021-05-05T11:37:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T15:37:00","slug":"thailand-yes-this-is-what-ive-been-searching-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=10077","title":{"rendered":"THAILAND: \u201cYes! This Is What I\u2019ve Been Searching For\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Source: International Mission Board, April 14, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Choi had grown up in a rural village made up of bamboo huts carved into the side of a hill. Her community had no clean water and wasn\u2019t accessible by car, so when our teams discovered her curiosity about the gospel through her daughter, they hiked to the summit to meet Choi and share the hope of God\u2019s love with her searching heart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sitting around the campfire at night, our partners switched between Thai, English, and the village dialect to communicate with Choi. She was eager to hear the Good News but didn\u2019t know how to read, so she asked each of our partners to share their testimonies verbally. Once she had heard them witness to the transformation God\u2019s presence had brought in their lives, Choi jumped up and exclaimed, \u201cYes! This is what I\u2019ve been searching for!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Soon, Choi was the most prominent evangelist in the foothills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imb.org\/2021\/04\/14\/witchcraft-prostitution-evangelist-pastors-wife\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The full story<\/a> shares how God delivered Choi from witchcraft and her daughter from prostitution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: International Mission Board, April 14, 2021 Choi had grown up in a rural village made up of bamboo huts carved into the side of a hill. Her community had no clean water and wasn\u2019t accessible by car, so when our teams discovered her curiosity about the gospel through her daughter, they hiked to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=10077\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">THAILAND: \u201cYes! This Is What I\u2019ve Been Searching For\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10077"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10078,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10077\/revisions\/10078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}