{"id":2323,"date":"2016-07-21T05:27:25","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T05:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/?p=2323"},"modified":"2016-07-21T18:53:19","modified_gmt":"2016-07-21T18:53:19","slug":"leh-looking-back-praying-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/?p=2323","title":{"rendered":"Leh: Looking Back, Praying Forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Screenshot_2015-06-27-18-48-17.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2318 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Screenshot_2015-06-27-18-48-17-300x169.png\" alt=\"Screenshot_2015-06-27-18-48-17\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Screenshot_2015-06-27-18-48-17-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Screenshot_2015-06-27-18-48-17-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Screenshot_2015-06-27-18-48-17.png 1024w, https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Screenshot_2015-06-27-18-48-17-250x141.png 250w, https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Screenshot_2015-06-27-18-48-17-500x281.png 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong>Our last week was in Leh Ladakh in the far northeastern part of Kashmir.\u00a0We had the great honor of meeting with Pastor Elijah, the pastor of the Moravian church for the past 26 years.\u00a0 We sat for more than five hours as this man activated his teacher anointing and told us of the rich Moravian history of Leh Ladakh.\u00a0 His grandfather was one of the first converts to Christianity in this region.\u00a0 He was a well educated man and had a burden for the Tibetan people just north of the border where there were only a few Christians.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Tibetan-Bible-Manuscript-7.16.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-2333 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Tibetan-Bible-Manuscript-7.16-299x300.jpg\" alt=\"Tibetan Bible Manuscript 7.16\" width=\"165\" height=\"166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Tibetan-Bible-Manuscript-7.16-299x300.jpg 299w, https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Tibetan-Bible-Manuscript-7.16-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Tibetan-Bible-Manuscript-7.16-250x250.jpg 250w, https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Tibetan-Bible-Manuscript-7.16.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 165px) 100vw, 165px\" \/><\/a>Pastor Elijah pointed to pictures on the wall of his grandfather and then proceeded to open up a brief case filled with old papers\u2026that just happened to be the original hand written manuscripts of the very first Tibetan Bible.\u00a0 It was his grandfather that carried this burden for years, painstakingly translating each verse.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong>It was a great honor to see these historic documents first hand, looking back at the lo<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-2315 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Tibetan-Bible-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Tibetan Bible\" width=\"234\" height=\"135\" \/>ng, difficult path Christians had followed to establish the church in this region.\u00a0Many people had come here over the years. Many of them suffered tremendously and even died for their faith. We felt like we were standing in their shadows as we looked at these precious pages.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong><a title=\"Leh: Looking Back, Praying Forward\" href=\"http:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/?page_id=2309\">Continue Reading&#8230;<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our last week was in Leh Ladakh in the far northeastern part of Kashmir.\u00a0We had the great honor of meeting with Pastor Elijah, the pastor of the Moravian church for the past 26 years.\u00a0 We sat for more than five &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/?p=2323\">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\/2323"}],"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=2323"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2338,"href":"https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323\/revisions\/2338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}