{"id":7747,"date":"2018-03-14T07:00:55","date_gmt":"2018-03-14T11:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=7747"},"modified":"2018-03-15T11:06:18","modified_gmt":"2018-03-15T15:06:18","slug":"subversive-mobilization-who-was-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=7747","title":{"rendered":"Subversive Mobilization: Who Was First?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7753\" src=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Liele.jpg\" alt=\"Liele\" width=\"632\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Liele.jpg 632w, https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Liele-271x300.jpg 271w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 632px) 100vw, 632px\" \/>Maybe you already know this, but I just found out and am amazed. We often say that Adoniram Judson was the first foreign missionary from America. Turns out George Liele beat him by nearly twenty years.<\/p>\n<p>George was a slave, then not a slave, one of the first African Americans ordained in America, convened the first black church in America, and went to Jamaica to preach to slaves there in 1783, becoming (arguably) the first missionary to go out from America. Amazing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bpnews.net\/43637\/liele-1st-baptist-missionary-from-america\" target=\"_blank\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/bpnews.net\/43637\/liele-1st-baptist-missionary-from-america\">Read more of George\u2019s story<\/a> and look for a chance to tell one person about him this week.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Shane Bennett<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe you already know this, but I just found out and am amazed. We often say that Adoniram Judson was the first foreign missionary from America. Turns out George Liele beat him by nearly twenty years. George was a slave, then not a slave, one of the first African Americans ordained in America, convened the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=7747\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Subversive Mobilization: Who Was First?<\/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":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-practical-mobilization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7747","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=7747"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7755,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7747\/revisions\/7755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}