{"id":7321,"date":"2017-08-02T08:40:06","date_gmt":"2017-08-02T12:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=7321"},"modified":"2017-08-02T08:40:06","modified_gmt":"2017-08-02T12:40:06","slug":"tremendous-obstacles-transformed-lives-world-news-briefs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=7321","title":{"rendered":"Tremendous obstacles, transformed lives | World News Briefs"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Missions-Catalyst-no-tagline_large\"In This Issue:
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

    \n
  1. THAILAND: Some Jungles Have Wifi<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. NORTH KOREA: Government Agent Accepted Jesus on His Deathbed<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. MALAWI: Saladin\u2019s Struggle<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. GREECE: Turning Hearts of Stone to Hearts of Flesh<\/a><\/li>\n
  5. SAUDI ARABIA: Reaching Mecca<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    … And find more stories in our Twitter feed<\/a>. We\u2019re approaching 5,000 followers and would love to have you join us there!<\/p>\n

    Greetings,<\/p>\n

    Midsummer is a time when many in North America are more likely to be awed by the night sky. I am looking forward to watching the lunar eclipse August 21. \u00a0If you are in the US, you might find this tool<\/a> helpful to determine when it will affect your city.<\/p>\n

    As I read the headlines, I am constantly asking what \u201cnews\u201d is heaven interested in? One could also ask what AWES heaven? What should awe Christians? Rev. Tad de Bordenave of Anglican Frontier Missions ponders this in his recent post Bottom Dwellers, Black Holes, and the Bagri.<\/a> In light of today\u2019s edition, I might add to the alliteration: Bangkok.<\/p>\n

    In AWE of him who created all,
    \nPat<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    In This Issue: THAILAND: Some Jungles Have Wifi NORTH KOREA: Government Agent Accepted Jesus on His Deathbed MALAWI: Saladin\u2019s Struggle GREECE: Turning Hearts of Stone to Hearts of Flesh SAUDI ARABIA: Reaching Mecca … And find more stories in our Twitter feed. We\u2019re approaching 5,000 followers and would love to have you join us there! … Continue reading Tremendous obstacles, transformed lives | World News Briefs<\/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-7321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7321","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=7321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7322,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7321\/revisions\/7322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}