{"id":2885,"date":"2017-06-12T20:09:29","date_gmt":"2017-06-12T20:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/?p=2885"},"modified":"2017-06-13T03:10:54","modified_gmt":"2017-06-13T03:10:54","slug":"not-easy-but-worth-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/?p=2885","title":{"rendered":"Not Easy, But Worth It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u201cDo you see that mountain?\u201d My young pastor friend pointed to a grand peak far in the distance that towered above all the peaks around it at about 10,000 feet. \u201cYeah, it\u2019s beautiful\u201d I said. \u201cWe\u2019re going to climb over that mountain today,\u201d he responded. All of a sudden the mountain was no longer beautiful but very intimidating. My first thought was \u201cYou have to be kidding me!\u201d My second thought was \u201cHelp me Jesus!\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>And help us He did. Over 6 days we trekked about 60 miles through the mountains and valleys of the Himalayas praying and visiting remote villages. Over and over again I was told I was the first foreigner to ever be there. In most places we were told, \u201cThere are no Christians in these mountains.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Our pastor friend grew up in these mountains and has extended family in many of the villages. Through him we were graciously welcomed\u00a0i<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-2882 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Deshraj-group-4.17-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Deshraj group 4.17\" width=\"313\" height=\"182\" \/>nto the homes and experienced the culture and hospitality of the Hindu mountain people.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>As we went, we prayed that God would open up this region to the Gospel. We prayed for the veil to be lifted; that the people would no longer be blinded by the god of this age; that the Gospel of the glory of Christ would shine on them and the name of Jesus would be glorified.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Not Easy, But Worth It\" href=\"http:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/?page_id=2879\">Continue Reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cDo you see that mountain?\u201d My young pastor friend pointed to a grand peak far in the distance that towered above all the peaks around it at about 10,000 feet. \u201cYeah, it\u2019s beautiful\u201d I said. \u201cWe\u2019re going to climb over &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/?p=2885\">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\/2885"}],"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=2885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2886,"href":"https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2885\/revisions\/2886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}