{"id":244,"date":"2009-02-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-23T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-02-19T13:50:20","modified_gmt":"2009-02-19T18:50:20","slug":"a-building-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/2009\/02\/23\/a-building-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"A building experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartImportPhoto--><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/files\/2009\/02\/newsAP(8974)_img.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-104\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;margin-bottom: 5px\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/files\/2009\/02\/newsAP(8974)_img.jpg\" alt=\"Dan and Kirk making bricks for Hawa`s house.\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><!--EndImportPhoto--><\/p>\n<p>Hawa needed a new house, and no one in her village would help her.<\/p>\n<p>The Landuma people of Guinea build their homes out of sun-dried mud blocks. Every ten years or so, they need to be rebuilt.<\/p>\n<p>That&rsquo;s when the community normally pitches in, each person knowing that they soon will need the help of everyone else in the community.<\/p>\n<p>But Hawa had placed her faith in Christ, so the people of her village refused to help.<\/p>\n<p>That presented an opportunity &ndash; and an obstacle &ndash; for the other Landuma believers. They could band together as a community and help Hawa. But if they did so, they would be publicly saying, &ldquo;We are believers,&rdquo; and each would risk being ostracized.<\/p>\n<p>Not every believer was ready for that step. But many were, and under the hot sun they labored together with Hawa and missionaries to build her new house.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for banding together with us, and more importantly, for working together with God to build His kingdom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When one woman&#8217;s village ostracized her for becoming a Christian, it was an opportunity for the Christians to come together and help her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}