{"id":4061,"date":"2013-11-21T14:45:46","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T19:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=4061"},"modified":"2013-11-21T14:45:46","modified_gmt":"2013-11-21T19:45:46","slug":"kosovo-the-power-of-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=4061","title":{"rendered":"KOSOVO: The Power of Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.om.org\" target=\"_blank\">OM News<\/a>, November 19, 2013<\/p>\n<p>As the woman served the team coffee, an OM team member asked if their family wanted prayer for anything. The woman\u2019s eyes brightened, and with uncommon honesty she explained their struggles.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are always working so hard for the harvest,&#8221; she said, &#8220;but are never seeing the results of our efforts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A team from Transform (an outreach to Mediterranean peoples) heard this prayer request as they trekked the villages of Kosovo. For one week in July, 22 believers from around the world set out by foot to deliver Albanian New Testaments house by house.<\/p>\n<p>While they walked, the teams kept their eyes open for opportunities for deeper spiritual conversations and prayer. When this Egyptian family opened their door, the team sensed this was a wider opening for Jesus\u2019 work&#8230;<\/p>\n<div>\u00bb <a href=\"http:\/\/news.om.org\/country-article\/r38221\" target=\"_blank\">Read full story<\/a>. See also <a href=\"http:\/\/news.om.org\/feature-article\/r38529\" target=\"_blank\">The Least of These<\/a>, a recent OM story about caring for the elderly in Malawi, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianaid.org\/News\/2013\/mir20131113.aspx?SC=MIR\" target=\"_blank\">Overcoming Powers of Darkness in Tanzania<\/a> (Christian Aid Mission). \u00bb Interested in Southeastern Europe? See also a story from neighboring Macedonia, <a href=\"http:\/\/iwpr.net\/report-news\/church-dispute-sparks-ethnic-tensions-macedonian-village\" target=\"_blank\">Church Dispute Sparks Ethnic Tensions in Macedonian Village<\/a> (IWPR) and several <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commissionstories.com\/eurasia\/videos\/view\/sarajevo-city-of-hope\" target=\"_blank\">stories from Sarajevo<\/a> (International Mission Board).<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: OM News, November 19, 2013 As the woman served the team coffee, an OM team member asked if their family wanted prayer for anything. The woman\u2019s eyes brightened, and with uncommon honesty she explained their struggles. &#8220;We are always working so hard for the harvest,&#8221; she said, &#8220;but are never seeing the results of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=4061\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">KOSOVO: The Power of Prayer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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-4061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4061","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=4061"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4062,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4061\/revisions\/4062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}