{"id":829,"date":"2008-06-25T17:11:45","date_gmt":"2008-06-25T17:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=264"},"modified":"2008-06-25T17:11:45","modified_gmt":"2008-06-25T17:11:45","slug":"62508","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=829","title":{"rendered":"6\/25\/08"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Buckeye Back Road Tour cont: \u00a0 I gave a talk to a prayer group at Sacred Heart Church in Fremont, Ohio, \u00a0last night. \u00a0 Part of the focus was about getting more help to people in the Third World. \u00a0 Afterward, Sr. Anthony Maria Valdez (&#8220;Sister Sam&#8221;) told me about an absolutely excellent local example of this. \u00a0 She is the <em>Director of Spiritual Care<\/em> \u00a0 at the St. Francis Health Center in nearby Green Springs, Ohio. \u00a0 People in a ward there for extreme brain trauma started a fundraising drive for the impoverished, small village of Lufu, Tanzania. \u00a0 Sister Sam said the St. Francis Health Center patients started donating, like, &#8220;25 cents&#8221; &#8212; all some had &#8212; and synergy (read: the &#8220;loaves and fishes&#8221;) started happening. \u00a0 Next the staff started kicking in, then others&#8230; and by the end of the year they had raised: $1,000. \u00a0 This money, in turn, paid for a village well \u00a0to provide \u00a0clean drinking water and for beds for a health clinic in Lufu. \u00a0 <strong>Note:<\/strong> We could end world poverty with a clear vision, 25 cents &#8212; \u00a0and God.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buckeye Back Road Tour cont: \u00a0 I gave a talk to a prayer group at Sacred Heart Church in Fremont, Ohio, \u00a0last night. \u00a0 Part of the focus was about getting more help to people in the Third World. \u00a0 <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=829\"><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-829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829","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=829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}