{"id":1949,"date":"2016-09-02T17:20:16","date_gmt":"2016-09-02T17:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.touchingasia.org\/main\/?p=1949"},"modified":"2016-09-02T17:51:41","modified_gmt":"2016-09-02T17:51:41","slug":"if-not-us-who-if-not-now-when","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.touchingasia.org\/main\/if-not-us-who-if-not-now-when\/","title":{"rendered":"IF NOT US, WHO? IF NOT NOW, WHEN?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u00a0<\/b>\u201cOpen your mouth for the mute, for the rights of all who are destitute. \u00a0Open your mouth, judge righteously, defend the rights of the poor and needy.\u201d \u00a0Proverbs 31:8-9<\/i><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n
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“God\u2019s commandment for his children was to first love God wholeheartedly and to love people. \u00a0So, how do you show love to people you don\u2019t know? \u00a0How do you show love to the poor, abused and enslaved? How do you empathize with those who are suffering when you don\u2019t know what it means to truly suffer? Kelly Nesvold, a native Minnesotan man, is showing us how to make a difference. Upon answering the calling God instilled on his heart to use his healthy body to help those in need, he completed a 300-mile triathlon on August 26th to raise money and awareness to fight sex trafficking.”<\/h5>\n
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Our partners Venture Expeditions organized this amazing one-man race for Kelly Nestvold to raise funds funds for the ministry against human trafficking.\u00a0See the whole story at www.venture.org\/300-miles-freedom<\/a>.<\/h5>\n

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\u00a0\u201cOpen your mouth for the mute, for the rights of all who are destitute. \u00a0Open your mouth, judge righteously, defend the rights of the poor and needy.\u201d \u00a0Proverbs 31:8-9 “God\u2019s commandment for his children was to first love God wholeheartedly and to love people. \u00a0So, how do you show love to people you don\u2019t know? \u00a0How do you show love to the poor, abused and enslaved? How do you empathize with those who are suffering when you don\u2019t know what it means to truly suffer? Kelly Nesvold, a native Minnesotan man, is showing us how to make a difference. Upon…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1950,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.touchingasia.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.touchingasia.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.touchingasia.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.touchingasia.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.touchingasia.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1949"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.touchingasia.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1963,"href":"http:\/\/www.touchingasia.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1949\/revisions\/1963"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.touchingasia.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.touchingasia.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.touchingasia.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.touchingasia.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}