{"id":591,"date":"2011-05-05T04:12:58","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T08:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spendyourself.org\/?p=591"},"modified":"2011-05-05T04:12:58","modified_gmt":"2011-05-05T08:12:58","slug":"thoughts-on-our-japan-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/test.fromscarlet.com\/?p=591","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts on our Japan Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/test.fromscarlet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Team-Picture.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-598 alignright\" title=\"Team Picture\" src=\"http:\/\/test.fromscarlet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Team-Picture-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/test.fromscarlet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Team-Picture-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/test.fromscarlet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Team-Picture-449x300.jpg 449w, http:\/\/test.fromscarlet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Team-Picture.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>As I watched the Church in Japan come together to serve the needs of their neighbors after the earthquake and tsunami I was amazed at the power of Jesus\u2019 love and grace in the midst of such a tragedy.\u00a0 The sacrifice and availability of God\u2019s people was so encouraging. Denominations uniting, neighbors sharing, praying and giving to help those in need.\u00a0 One day, a church we partnered with was able to feed over 1000 people!\u00a0 It was encouraging to see people selflessly spending themselves for God\u2019s Glory and the joy and healing of those who need it most.\u00a0 What a joy to be a part of such an adventure.\u00a0 Thank you for partnering with us and making this trip possible!\u00a0 Through the gifts of some pretty amazing and generous people we were able to raise nearly $115,000.00!\u00a0 I am grateful for your prayers and sacrifices that have contributed to reaching the second largest unreached people group on the planet and a people very dear to my heart.\u00a0 All of it has and is being invested in assisting and empowering the local churches we partnered with while we were there.\u00a0 We are helping them help their communities and bear witness to the Gospel in this time of need.\u00a0 It was amazing to be a part of that, even though my heart was breaking the whole time as I saw the brokenness and need for hope.\u00a0 That is why we went and that is why the global church must now, more than ever, unite and seek to empower and assist the local Church in Japan to continue to serve and impact their country spiritually, physically and emotionally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I watched the Church in Japan come together to serve the needs of their neighbors after the earthquake and tsunami I was amazed at the power of Jesus\u2019 love and grace in the midst of such a tragedy.\u00a0 The sacrifice and availability of God\u2019s people was so encouraging. Denominations uniting, neighbors sharing, praying and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":592,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[74,108,222],"class_list":["post-591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tsunami-relief-in-japan-world-missions","tag-fund-raising","tag-japan","tag-tsunami-relief"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/test.fromscarlet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/test.fromscarlet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/test.fromscarlet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/test.fromscarlet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/test.fromscarlet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/test.fromscarlet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/test.fromscarlet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/test.fromscarlet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/test.fromscarlet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/test.fromscarlet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}