{"id":3713,"date":"2025-12-10T12:29:44","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T16:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/?p=3713"},"modified":"2025-12-10T12:29:46","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T16:29:46","slug":"good-news-from-a-far-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/2025\/12\/10\/good-news-from-a-far-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Good News from a Far Country"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The believers of Faith Bible Church in the Philippines just celebrated their sixth anniversary!\u00a0 (This is an anniversary of the church building being built.)\u00a0 They celebrated with singing, preaching, and eating.\u00a0 They celebrated with one another.\u00a0 They celebrated with guests and special speakers from two other churches.\u00a0 And they celebrated without us, thus this was their first anniversary celebration on their own.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"442\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/files\/2025\/12\/fbc-600x442.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3723\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/files\/2025\/12\/fbc-600x442.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/files\/2025\/12\/fbc-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/files\/2025\/12\/fbc-768x566.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/files\/2025\/12\/fbc-1536x1132.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/files\/2025\/12\/fbc-2048x1509.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/files\/2025\/12\/fbc-125x92.jpg 125w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/files\/2025\/12\/fbc-250x184.jpg 250w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/files\/2025\/12\/fbc-343x253.jpg 343w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/files\/2025\/12\/fbc-1920x1415.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">FBC Members Celebrating with Guests<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>This is good news from a far country.\u00a0 This is good news of the believers continuing to worship and serve the Lord together.\u00a0 This is good news of what the Lord continues to do in and through the believers in the Philippines.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Praise the Lord with us for this good news from a far country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.&#8221;  Proverbs 25:25<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The believers of Faith Bible Church in the Philippines just celebrated their sixth anniversary!\u00a0 (This is an anniversary of the church building being built.)\u00a0 They celebrated with singing, preaching, and eating.\u00a0 They celebrated with one another.\u00a0 They celebrated with guests and special speakers from two other churches.\u00a0 And they celebrated without us, thus this was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":3719,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3713","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/232"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}