{"id":10325,"date":"2021-08-04T08:22:12","date_gmt":"2021-08-04T12:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=10325"},"modified":"2021-08-04T08:58:22","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T12:58:22","slug":"world-an-olympic-games-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=10325","title":{"rendered":"WORLD: An Olympic Games Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Source: Various<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Olympics: A Pattern for the Church?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Olympic Games provide a wonderful foretaste of the Church in Revelation 7. Or do they have more in common with the gathering of nations in Genesis 11?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kouya.net\/?p=12961\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read what UK theologian and missiologist Eddie Arthur has to say on this topic<\/a> (Kouya.net).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Iranian Defector Dedicates Olympic Medal to Israel<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Competing for Mongolia, Iranian defector Saeid Mollaei won a silver medal and dedicated it to Israel. Mollaei told the Israeli Sports Channel he is grateful for the support he\u2019s received from Israel after defecting from Iran (due to pressure from his team to deliberately lose a match to avoid competing against an Israeli).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www1.cbn.com\/cbnnews\/israel\/2021\/july\/iranian-defector-dedicates-olympic-medal-to-israel-nbsp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read more<\/a> (CBN News).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Madeline Manning Mims, Chaplain at the Olympics<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What is it like to be a chaplain to elite athletes at the Summer Games? A sports ministry asked Olympic 800-meter champion and trailblazer Madeline Manning Mims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"youtu.be\/pxgfxTuULlE\" target=\"_blank\">Watch a short video on YouTube<\/a> or below (Athletes in Action).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Madeline Manning Mims, Chaplain at the Olympics\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pxgfxTuULlE?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>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Various The Olympics: A Pattern for the Church? The Olympic Games provide a wonderful foretaste of the Church in Revelation 7. Or do they have more in common with the gathering of nations in Genesis 11? Read what UK theologian and missiologist Eddie Arthur has to say on this topic (Kouya.net). Iranian Defector Dedicates &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=10325\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WORLD: An Olympic Games Roundup<\/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-10325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10325","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=10325"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10342,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10325\/revisions\/10342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}