{"id":1744,"date":"2018-04-14T19:32:25","date_gmt":"2018-04-14T19:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1744"},"modified":"2018-04-14T19:32:25","modified_gmt":"2018-04-14T19:32:25","slug":"urban-youth-guatemalan-boxer-finding-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1744","title":{"rendered":"urban youth; Guatemalan boxer; finding God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My son Jonathan and I volunteered at Rally Point, a <strong>&#8221; Youth for Christ Outreach&#8221;<\/strong> in Lima Wednesday evening. \u00a0After the meal, we listened to a man from Guatemala give his &#8220;testimony.&#8221; He was on a trajectory to be a boxer on the Olympic Team there &#8212; when he was shot in the head. Although quite an athlete, he was also caught up with some gang members. \u00a0And he got caught in the cross-fire in a gang-related shooting. \u00a0He lost his right eye. \u00a0He said while lying in the hospital bed, he gave his life to Christ. \u00a0That started him on a trajectory where he was all in for God, the same way he&#8217;d been all in for boxing. He subsequently did a series of <strong>&#8220;Youth With A Mission&#8221;<\/strong> trips, met his wife in America&#8230; \u00a0And now he has five children (including an adopted child from Ethiopia); is involved with an outreach ministry into hardscrabble areas of Lima, Ohio; is the manager of a local Walmart; and he and the family \u00a0live in the small town of Ottawa. \u00a0There were some 50 kids in Rally Point this night. \u00a0This man (Josua Gomez) was so dynamic, you could have heard a pin drop in the place the entire time he was talking. \u00a0For more on our take on urban youth, and such, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voteforjoe.com\/urban-youth\">see&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My son Jonathan and I volunteered at Rally Point, a &#8221; Youth for Christ Outreach&#8221; in Lima Wednesday evening. \u00a0After the meal, we listened to a man from Guatemala give his &#8220;testimony.&#8221; He was on a trajectory to be a <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1744\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/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-1744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1744","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=1744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1745,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1744\/revisions\/1745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}