{"id":2207,"date":"2016-05-23T05:13:57","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T05:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/?p=2207"},"modified":"2016-05-23T05:14:20","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T05:14:20","slug":"no-one-wants-to-come-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/?p=2207","title":{"rendered":"No One Wants to Come Here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong>We sat in a classroom that had become the home for Ajit, Jayanti and their two sons.\u00a0 Ajit spoke softly, sharing his story.\u00a0\u201cWe came here as missionaries two years ago.\u00a0 For years I asked my pastor for his blessing to come here but he always refused, but finally he gave us his blessing.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Screenshot_2015-06-26-15-25-01.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-2190 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Screenshot_2015-06-26-15-25-01-300x169.png\" alt=\"Screenshot_2015-06-26-15-25-01\" width=\"390\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a>Our team had come to Leh, in Northeastern Kashmir.\u00a0 A very remote mountainous region which is isolated from the rest of the world for 6-8 months each year as the two mountain passes fill with snow blocking off all supplies and trade goods coming in or out. The population is 200,000, mostly Buddhist, with less than 300 Christians.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong>\u201cWhen I arrived here I met with a motorcycle accident.\u00a0 I broke both my wrists and my shoulder\u201d\u00a0Ajit continued.\u00a0\u201cI was in great pain and required surgery but I was not able to go to the hospital in Delhi.\u00a0 It was 4 months before I had surgery. My shoulder is still not healed and is in pain.\u201d \u00a0 \u00a0<a title=\"No One Wants To Come Here\" href=\"http:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/?page_id=2191\">Continue Reading&#8230;<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We sat in a classroom that had become the home for Ajit, Jayanti and their two sons.\u00a0 Ajit spoke softly, sharing his story.\u00a0\u201cWe came here as missionaries two years ago.\u00a0 For years I asked my pastor for his blessing to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/?p=2207\">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\/2207"}],"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=2207"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2216,"href":"https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2207\/revisions\/2216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}