{"id":5189,"date":"2014-11-19T10:02:19","date_gmt":"2014-11-19T18:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=5189"},"modified":"2014-11-19T10:02:19","modified_gmt":"2014-11-19T18:02:19","slug":"missions-catalyst-news-briefs-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=5189","title":{"rendered":"Missions Catalyst News Briefs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Missions-Catalyst-no-tagline_large.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4515\" src=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Missions-Catalyst-no-tagline_large.png\" alt=\"Missions-Catalyst-no-tagline_large\" width=\"620\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Missions-Catalyst-no-tagline_large.png 620w, https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Missions-Catalyst-no-tagline_large-300x100.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>In This Issue: Lives that Inspire<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=5187\">ASIA-PACIFIC: He Carried Her to Hear the Gospel<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=5185\">UKRAINE: Year-long Training and Evangelism Campaign<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=5183\">BURKINA FASO: Bible Teaching for the Mossi<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=5181\">IRAQ: ISIS Crisis Creates Opportunity to Share Christ<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Greetings!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Foreign Policy Magazine has just announced their choices for the <a href=\"http:\/\/globalthinkers.foreignpolicy.com\/\">100 Leading Global Thinkers of 2014<\/a>, in ten categories: agitators, decision-makers, challengers, naturals, innovators, advocates, chroniclers, healers, artists, and moguls. Interesting, but I found the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.assistnews.net\/Stories\/2014\/s14110080.htm\">story of Pema Tschering<\/a>, told in film by a friend of his, more inspiring than them all. As a doer more than a thinker, he didn&#8217;t make the list. Against all odds, this young Bhutanese man lives with cerebral palsy and uses his feet to make beautiful wood carvings and live an independent life. <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/Y5y-g7CAqpU\">Watch the five-minute film<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Good leaders inspire. Bad leaders, well, apparently they never step down. The Guardian offers to test your knowledge of some of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/quiz\/2014\/nov\/12\/africa-presidents-for-life-quiz\">Africa\u2019s presidents for life<\/a>. I scored 7 out of 10; slightly above average. Can you beat me? After this informative quiz, you might find this TED talk interesting: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/fred_swaniker_the_leaders_who_ruined_africa_and_the_generation_who_can_fix_it\">The Leaders Who Ruined Africa and the Generation that Can Fix It<\/a>. You may find this young man more inspiring, too!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Blessed and challenged,<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Pat<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Fred-Swaniker.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-5190\" src=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Fred-Swaniker-1024x441.jpg\" alt=\"Fred-Swaniker\" width=\"584\" height=\"251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Fred-Swaniker-1024x441.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Fred-Swaniker-300x129.jpg 300w, https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Fred-Swaniker-500x215.jpg 500w, https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Fred-Swaniker.jpg 1160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ghanaian Fred Swaniker founded a leadership network to educate and support the next generation of Africa\u2019s leaders. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/fred_swaniker_the_leaders_who_ruined_africa_and_the_generation_who_can_fix_it\">Watch his TED talk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Pat.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Pat.jpg\" alt=\"Pat\" width=\"139\" height=\"191\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pat Noble has been the \u201cnews sleuth\u201d for Missions Catalyst since 2004. In addition to churning out the news, she is working to create a SWARM (Serving World A Regional Mobilizers) in Northern New York using the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northernchristian.org\">NorthernChristian.org<\/a> website. You can connect with her at <a href=\"http:\/\/whatsoeverthings.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.whatsoeverthings.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In This Issue: Lives that Inspire ASIA-PACIFIC: He Carried Her to Hear the Gospel UKRAINE: Year-long Training and Evangelism Campaign BURKINA FASO: Bible Teaching for the Mossi IRAQ: ISIS Crisis Creates Opportunity to Share Christ Greetings! Foreign Policy Magazine has just announced their choices for the 100 Leading Global Thinkers of 2014, in ten categories: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=5189\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Missions Catalyst News Briefs<\/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-5189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5189","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=5189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5191,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5189\/revisions\/5191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}