{"id":1170,"date":"2015-02-13T04:24:50","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T04:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/?p=1170"},"modified":"2015-08-02T05:51:51","modified_gmt":"2015-08-02T05:51:51","slug":"tea-stalls-cows-sewing-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/?p=1170","title":{"rendered":"Tea Stalls, Cows &#038; Sewing Machines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u201cPlease come, Pastor, please come. I want you to pray for my business and my home.\u201d <\/em>Pastor Yudhbir is a short man with a smile so big it almost splits his face in half. He had been working tirelessly helping host the pastors\u2019 conference we just finished. I wanted to do anything I could to bless this little man who served with such a big heart.<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-1172 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Pastor-Yudhbir-2-300x235.jpg\" alt=\"Pastor Yudhbir (2)\" width=\"312\" height=\"235\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So late in the evening we drove to the edge of town where I was told he operated a tea stall. Upon our arrival I thought, <em>\u201cThis is a tea stall?\u201d<\/em> It was nothing more than a lean-to made of a few blue tarps with a dirt floor. There was an old bench or two and a large blackened pot where his wife would make chai over a propane flame. There was no electricity.<\/p>\n<p>I was told that pastor Yudhbir moved here from Nepal a couple years ago. He started a ministry in an area known for witchcraft and black magic. He has established 3 house churches and has led over 35 people to the Lord. <a href=\"http:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/2015-02-quarterly-newsletter-2pg.pdf\">Continue reading on page 2 of our newsletter&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cPlease come, Pastor, please come. I want you to pray for my business and my home.\u201d Pastor Yudhbir is a short man with a smile so big it almost splits his face in half. He had been working tirelessly helping &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/?p=1170\">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\/1170"}],"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=1170"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1178,"href":"https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170\/revisions\/1178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}