{"id":1519,"date":"2016-04-08T20:39:43","date_gmt":"2016-04-08T20:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1519"},"modified":"2016-04-08T20:43:02","modified_gmt":"2016-04-08T20:43:02","slug":"1519","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1519","title":{"rendered":"missionaries to Japan; Sister Cities, Globalization, at it’s finest"},"content":{"rendered":"

I interviewed Carl Liechty for one of my wife’s magazines<\/a> today.\u00a0 Carl and his family were Mennonite missionaries in Japan for an extended period.\u00a0 Carl taught in several universities there and the family had a “house church” where they taught people about Jesus.\u00a0 Carl said another way the Japanese were learning about Christ was through all the Christian run schools and hospitals in the land.\u00a0 Carl added that, although the majority religion was Buddhism, the Japanese had a quite favorable view of Christianity because of the active benevolence inherit to these Christian institutions.\u00a0 (“Preach the gospel, and only if necessary:<\/em> use words.” –St. Francis)\u00a0 Carl, 77, said he and his wife might soon be traveling to Japan again as interpreters for a Lima, Ohio \/ Harimo Cho, Japan, “Sister City” excursion.\u00a0 Note:<\/strong>\u00a0 Our administration would try to inspire way<\/em> more Sister City projects between American towns and towns in the world at large.\u00a0 Projects replete with cultural exchanges, monetary aid to less advantaged towns, regular excursions back and forth…\u00a0 Globalization, at it’s finest.\u00a0 For more on our foreign policy position, see…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I interviewed Carl Liechty for one of my wife’s magazines today.\u00a0 Carl and his family were Mennonite missionaries in Japan for an extended period.\u00a0 Carl taught in several universities there and the family had a “house church” where they taught …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1519"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1523,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519\/revisions\/1523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}