{"id":1166,"date":"2013-08-04T07:00:09","date_gmt":"2013-08-04T11:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/francois-hattingh\/?p=1166"},"modified":"2013-08-04T07:00:09","modified_gmt":"2013-08-04T11:00:09","slug":"hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/francois-hattingh\/2013\/08\/04\/hope\/","title":{"rendered":"Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1167\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/francois-hattingh\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/303\/files\/2013\/08\/IMG_8914-Tima-and-Nelda.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" rel=\"thumbnail\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1167\" title=\"IMG_8914-Tima-and-Nelda\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/francois-hattingh\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/303\/files\/2013\/08\/IMG_8914-Tima-and-Nelda-300x225.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/francois-hattingh\/files\/2013\/08\/IMG_8914-Tima-and-Nelda-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/francois-hattingh\/files\/2013\/08\/IMG_8914-Tima-and-Nelda-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/francois-hattingh\/files\/2013\/08\/IMG_8914-Tima-and-Nelda-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/francois-hattingh\/files\/2013\/08\/IMG_8914-Tima-and-Nelda.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>We want to share with you Salim\u2019s witness the day after the funeral of his 5 year old daughter:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know that death came to this world through Adam\u2019s disobedience.  Death is a result of sin, but we know that God has made a Way &#8211; only one Way &#8211; for us to be Redeemed.  We can be saved from eternal death! We belief in God\u2019s Way!  We know that our daughter is with Him now and that all her pain and suffering is over.  In that we have great comfort. Only, it is very hard for us.  We miss our daughter, but we know that she is ok now!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Salim and Tima are greatly comforted to know that there are no tears, no pain and no hunger in heaven!  Tima\u2019s eyes shone with hope when she was reminded that she will see her daughter again&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>After attending hopeless, heart wrenching funerals for many years here in Mwinikaland, we can\u2019t tell you how much it encourages us to have attended Nelda\u2019s funeral!   Yes, this little girl\u2019s death is a terrible tragedy.  But there were an infusion of hope and a great Comfort present at this funeral.  Indeed, His very Presence comforted us.  For that, we thank and praise Him.<\/p>\n<p>May the witness of Jesus Christ grow in strength under the Mwinika!<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Tima and Nelda just before her passing away on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We want to share with you Salim\u2019s witness the day after the funeral of his 5 year old daughter: \u201cWe know that death came to this world through Adam\u2019s disobedience. Death is a result of sin, but we know that God has made a Way &#8211; only one Way &#8211; for us to be Redeemed. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":808,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-ministry","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/francois-hattingh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/francois-hattingh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/francois-hattingh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/francois-hattingh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/808"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/francois-hattingh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/francois-hattingh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/francois-hattingh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/francois-hattingh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/francois-hattingh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}