{"id":4027,"date":"2016-09-13T09:22:32","date_gmt":"2016-09-13T14:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/?p=4027"},"modified":"2016-09-13T11:23:47","modified_gmt":"2016-09-13T16:23:47","slug":"good-news-from-a-far-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/good-news-from-a-far-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Good News from a Far Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Baptism.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4029 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Baptism-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"baptism\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Baptism-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Baptism-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Baptism-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Proverbs 25:25 &#8220;As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>As we travel around the USA, it is a blessing to hear from home.<strong> This week we received a wonderful report from our co-laborers, three of our teenagers were baptized!<\/strong> <\/em>Baptism is a BIG step for our people in the Philippines because it is a public testimony that they are Christians. Some face persecution when they take this step of faith so it is not something people do lightly. We praise the Lord for this good news! What an encouragement as we grow weary from our travels and miss home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proverbs 25:25 &#8220;As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.&#8221; As we travel around the USA, it is a blessing to hear from home. This week we received a wonderful report from our co-laborers, three of our teenagers were baptized! Baptism is a BIG step for our people in the Philippines because it &hellip; <a class=\"meta-nav\" href=\"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/good-news-from-a-far-country\/\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[33,39],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4027"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4027"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4033,"href":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4027\/revisions\/4033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fbbc.com\/chrisbaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}