{"id":1159,"date":"2015-02-13T04:25:09","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T04:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/?p=1159"},"modified":"2015-08-02T05:51:51","modified_gmt":"2015-08-02T05:51:51","slug":"responding-to-the-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/?p=1159","title":{"rendered":"Responding to the Call"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u201cI\u2019m a little upset with you,\u201d<\/em> she said. I was sitting with Mushtaq and Neera, a husband and wife who are the priests of Christ Church, an Anglican church in Shimla, North India. They had asked to speak with me and so far the conversation wasn\u2019t going so well.<\/p>\n<p>I had met Nee<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1162 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Christ-Church-246x300.jpg\" alt=\"Christ Church\" width=\"185\" height=\"222\" \/>ra in 2012 during my first journey to North India with my friend Mark Geppert and his team from SEAPC. Mark was leading a prayer journey throughout the state of Himachal Pradesh, one of the most unreached regions in the world. Each time I returned, I would stop in to visit and pray with Mushtaq and Neera. Over the past 2 years we had become dear friends.<\/p>\n<p>But now I was a little concerned. <em>\u201cI\u2019m sorry, I don\u2019t understand,\u201d<\/em> I replied. <a href=\"http:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/2015-02-quarterly-newsletter-2pg.pdf\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI\u2019m a little upset with you,\u201d she said. I was sitting with Mushtaq and Neera, a husband and wife who are the priests of Christ Church, an Anglican church in Shimla, North India. They had asked to speak with me &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/?p=1159\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1159"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1177,"href":"https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159\/revisions\/1177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}