{"id":5716,"date":"2015-07-01T08:48:53","date_gmt":"2015-07-01T15:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=5716"},"modified":"2015-07-01T09:24:48","modified_gmt":"2015-07-01T16:24:48","slug":"5716","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=5716","title":{"rendered":"World News Briefs"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Missions-Catalyst-no-tagline_large\"<\/a>Missions Catalyst News Briefs 7.1.15<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. WORLD: Wars and Statistics<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. INDIA: Holiday Wars<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. LEBANON: Muslim Leaders Condemn Persecution of Christians<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. WORLD: Refugees, Crisis or Opportunity?<\/a><\/li>\n
  5. INDONESIA: Former Jihadist Starts Jesus Communities<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    \"HopeinJesus\"<\/a>Listen to Josh Lavender sing Hope in Jesus<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

    Greetings!<\/strong><\/p>\n

    How do you communicate hope? Before we can communicate hope to others we must learn to make them feel welcome. I am finding that the tools that a missionary needs to communicate well are also needed close to home. The pluralistic West hosts many subcultures, even where I live in upstate New York. In light of that, my pastor sent me a helpful list of seven things to say to church visitors<\/a> and from the same source ten things you should never say<\/a> (Thom Rainer).<\/p>\n

    Even more helpful is this list of things to avoid saying<\/a> in an honor\/shame context (HonorShame.com). The explanations are SO helpful. I think some of my relatives are from an honor\/shame subculture!<\/p>\n

    Communicating hope must also be done with prayer. Are you praying this Ramadan for Muslims? Here are some ways to pray for Muslims besieged by war<\/a> (Zwemer Center).<\/p>\n

    Communicating hope in Jesus,<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Pat<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Missions Catalyst News Briefs 7.1.15 WORLD: Wars and Statistics INDIA: Holiday Wars LEBANON: Muslim Leaders Condemn Persecution of Christians WORLD: Refugees, Crisis or Opportunity? INDONESIA: Former Jihadist Starts Jesus Communities Listen to Josh Lavender sing Hope in Jesus. Greetings! How do you communicate hope? Before we can communicate hope to others we must learn to … Continue reading World 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-5716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5716","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=5716"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5722,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5716\/revisions\/5722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}