{"id":7144,"date":"2017-05-17T12:53:17","date_gmt":"2017-05-17T16:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=7144"},"modified":"2017-05-17T12:53:17","modified_gmt":"2017-05-17T16:53:17","slug":"zimbabwe-father-of-gospel-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=7144","title":{"rendered":"ZIMBABWE: Father of Gospel Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ll end this edition of News Briefs on an upbeat note. The <a href=\"http:\/\/globalworship.tumblr.com\/post\/160391818310\/machanic-manyeruke-zimbabwes-gospel-music-legend\" target=\"_blank\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/globalworship.tumblr.com\/post\/160391818310\/machanic-manyeruke-zimbabwes-gospel-music-legend\">Global Christian Worship<\/a> blog recently highlighted news about a Zimbabwean worship leader whom you may find inspiring:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ksr-video.imgix.net\/projects\/1218759\/video-764427-h264_high.mp4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-7145\" src=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Machanic-Manyeruke-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"Machanic Manyeruke\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Machanic-Manyeruke-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Machanic-Manyeruke-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Machanic-Manyeruke-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Machanic-Manyeruke.jpg 1552w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a>\u201cKnown as the father of gospel music in Zimbabwe and heralded around the world simply as a great musician and songwriter, Machanic Manyeruke\u2019s rise to international fame from humble origins carries profoundly inspiring and telling lessons,\u201d says James Ault, producer of an upcoming documentary of Manyeruke.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb Watch a <a href=\"https:\/\/ksr-video.imgix.net\/projects\/1218759\/video-764427-h264_high.mp4\" target=\"_blank\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/ksr-video.imgix.net\/projects\/1218759\/video-764427-h264_high.mp4\">short video about the project<\/a> (for which the funding is now complete) and check out <a href=\"http:\/\/jamesault.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/jamesault.com\/\">Ault\u2019s website<\/a> to learn about other documentary films exploring world Christianity. They look interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ll end this edition of News Briefs on an upbeat note. The Global Christian Worship blog recently highlighted news about a Zimbabwean worship leader whom you may find inspiring: \u201cKnown as the father of gospel music in Zimbabwe and heralded around the world simply as a great musician and songwriter, Machanic Manyeruke\u2019s rise to international &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=7144\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ZIMBABWE: Father of Gospel Music<\/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-7144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7144","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=7144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7146,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7144\/revisions\/7146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}