{"id":8597,"date":"2019-06-19T12:22:55","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T16:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=8597"},"modified":"2019-06-19T12:22:55","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T16:22:55","slug":"usa-the-impact-of-a-gospel-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=8597","title":{"rendered":"USA: The Impact of a Gospel Rock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: World Venture, June 14, 2019<\/p>\n<p>In 2015, Megan Murphy started <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thekindnessrocksproject.com\/origins\" target=\"_blank\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.thekindnessrocksproject.com\/origins\">The Kindness Rock Project<\/a>. She left a rock on the beach of Cape Cod with the words \u201cYou\u2019ve Got This\u201d painted on it. Facebook rock painting groups began where communities did a grown-up Easter egg-like hunt for hand-painted rocks, leaving pictures with hints on Facebook groups so a family or person could find it and report it to the group. Over the past year or two, I\u2019ve participated in this trend as a form of community outreach for online connections. Last week, my prayers yielded phenomenal results.<\/p>\n<p>Kairi and her mom were hiking in the Dells in Prescott, Arizona when Kairi discovered my painted rock sitting near the Highline Trail. She turned the stone over and saw the contact information Modge-Podged and taped to the back.<\/p>\n<p>The back of the rock contained a QR code, my email, and the instructions, \u201cPlease post to the Chino Valley Rock Facebook Group.\u201d The QR code included a link to BibleGateway. Kairi sent me a message through her mom\u2019s email account, saying, \u201cFound your rock. I am 11 years old, and I want to do what you are doing. I want to be a missionary when I grow up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldventure.com\/the-impact-of-a-gospel-rock\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.worldventure.com\/the-impact-of-a-gospel-rock\/\">Read full story<\/a>. Yet another picture of creative ministry using social media. Let\u2019s pray for young Kairi and God\u2019s work in her life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: World Venture, June 14, 2019 In 2015, Megan Murphy started The Kindness Rock Project. She left a rock on the beach of Cape Cod with the words \u201cYou\u2019ve Got This\u201d painted on it. Facebook rock painting groups began where communities did a grown-up Easter egg-like hunt for hand-painted rocks, leaving pictures with hints on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=8597\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">USA: The Impact of a Gospel Rock<\/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-8597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8597","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=8597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8598,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8597\/revisions\/8598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}