{"id":13449,"date":"2024-12-04T14:50:12","date_gmt":"2024-12-04T22:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=13449"},"modified":"2024-12-04T14:50:12","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T22:50:12","slug":"lebanon-seminary-pivots-to-shelter-hundreds-of-the-displaced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=13449","title":{"rendered":"Lebanon: Seminary Pivots to Shelter Hundreds of the Displaced"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Source: Mission Network News, November 29, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Crises can happen in a moment, but they can also drag on beyond all expectations. Yet God has sustained his people in the Middle East to be his hands and feet during years of tumult.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Take Lebanon. It has endured decades of conflict and economic collapse. The current war no one wanted has displaced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unrefugees.org\/news\/what-is-happening-in-lebanon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">an estimated 1.3 million people<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cCrisis, wars, disruptions [are] nothing new to this region. We\u2019re used to difficulties and hardships,\u201d says Loulwa Maalouf with the <a href=\"https:\/\/abtslebanon.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Arab Baptist Theological Seminary<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBut at the same time, we are used to seeing God at work, and we are called to be here and be part of his work.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today [ABTS] not only provides biblical education to around 240 students, but it also shelters a couple hundred displaced people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWith every crisis in Lebanon, we are used to taking a step and saying, \u2018Okay, how does God want us to respond now?\u2019\u201d Maalouf says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mnnonline.org\/news\/decades-of-abuse-leave-rohingya-and-myanmar-searching-for-hope\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read the full story<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also from Mission Network News, see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mnnonline.org\/news\/new-approaches-needed-for-growing-mongolian-church\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">New Approaches Needed for Growing Mongolian Church<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Mission Network News, November 29, 2024 Crises can happen in a moment, but they can also drag on beyond all expectations. Yet God has sustained his people in the Middle East to be his hands and feet during years of tumult. Take Lebanon. It has endured decades of conflict and economic collapse. The current &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=13449\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lebanon: Seminary Pivots to Shelter Hundreds of the Displaced<\/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-13449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13449","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=13449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13450,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13449\/revisions\/13450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}