{"id":1831,"date":"2012-12-13T14:53:51","date_gmt":"2012-12-13T18:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lance-ostman\/?p=1831"},"modified":"2012-12-13T14:53:51","modified_gmt":"2012-12-13T18:53:51","slug":"merry-christmas-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lance-ostman\/2012\/12\/13\/merry-christmas-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Merry Christmas!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The birth of the Savior so long ago is why we celebrate, not only during this season, but the whole year long! The first thing the angel said that night was, \u201cFear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people<\/em>\u201d (Luke 2:10.) What a wonderful message of hope for a world in crisis!<\/p>\n

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Crops flattened by the storm<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Tragedy<\/strong>:
\nYou have heard by now that a super-typhoon (Bopha<\/a>) made a direct hit on Mindanao. With today\u2019s news reporting the death toll at \u201c902 with hundreds still missing<\/strong><\/span>,\u201d we are grateful that there was no loss of life in our valley.<\/p>\n

The main concern with them isn\u2019t so much about the damage to people\u2019s houses; it is about the loss of their crops. The food supplies they depend on have been badly damaged. Please pray<\/strong> that they would \u201cFear not<\/strong><\/span>\u201d but trust their Heavenly Father to care for them. (Some have asked what they can do. Let us know if you want to help.)<\/p>\n

Merry Christmas<\/strong>:
\nSince we are here in the USA, we decided to give ourselves a Christmas gift: We are flying out to spend an early Christmas with Robert, Ean and some of Laura\u2019s family. Please pray<\/strong> for safety, good weather for those travel days especially and a great time with loved ones.<\/p>\n

Our wish for you is a Blessed Christmas with CHRIST as the focus! Thank you so much for praying for us as Lance works on Old Testament translation for the Higaunon.<\/p>\n

Secure in Jesus,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The birth of the Savior so long ago is why we celebrate, not only during this season, but the whole year long! The first thing the angel said that night was, \u201cFear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people\u201d (Luke 2:10.) What a wonderful message […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":241,"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":[3,4,3621,143],"tags":[35884,721,35888,35886,61839,1713,317,3024,7619,268,35885,61841,6244],"class_list":{"0":"post-1831","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-family","7":"category-ministry","8":"category-news-article","9":"category-prayer-request","10":"tag-bopha","11":"tag-christmas","12":"tag-crisis","13":"tag-fear-not","14":"tag-higaunon","15":"tag-joy","16":"tag-message","17":"tag-old-testament","18":"tag-pablo","19":"tag-storm","20":"tag-tragedy","21":"tag-translation","22":"tag-typhoon","23":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lance-ostman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lance-ostman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lance-ostman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lance-ostman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/241"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lance-ostman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lance-ostman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lance-ostman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lance-ostman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lance-ostman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}