{"id":4126,"date":"2020-12-07T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/?p=4126"},"modified":"2020-12-08T05:01:56","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T05:01:56","slug":"perfect-couple-for-a-perfect-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/?p=4126","title":{"rendered":"Perfect Couple for a Perfect Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Our team of 10 was trekking a narrow mountain path when it began to rain. Soon we were all wet and our boots covered in mud from the slippery path.&nbsp; As we came to a road an apple truck came by and offered us a ride.&nbsp; We all immediately climbed onto the truck laughing and feeling blessed that were able to get a ride.&nbsp; <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-4123 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Ashish-apple-truck-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"279\" height=\"212\">After a few miles we were dropped at a tea stall in a small remote village.&nbsp; As we all climbed down a young man from the team approached me with his coat tied around his waist and a look of total fear in his eyes.&nbsp; \u201cWhat\u2019s wrong?\u201d I asked.&nbsp; Sheepishly, he opened the jacket to reveal a huge split in his pants.&nbsp; My eyes grew big and my jaw dropped as I watched his brown face turn red from embarrassment.&nbsp; And I, being the man of compassion that I am, laughed and laughed.&nbsp;&nbsp; In fact all of us got a great laugh which did not help the guy at all but it really was funny.&nbsp; Then, to our amazement, directly across from the tea stall was a tailor. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Obviously God loved him more than we did because he provided a tailor in the middle of nowhere.&nbsp; The entire teamed marched over and snickered and laughed while the man held out his pants to the tailor from behind a curtain. One of the young women in our group showed compassion and paid for the much needed repairs.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/?page_id=4121\">Their story continues&#8230;<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our team of 10 was trekking a narrow mountain path when it began to rain. Soon we were all wet and our boots covered in mud from the slippery path.&nbsp; As we came to a road an apple truck came &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/?p=4126\">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\/4126"}],"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=4126"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4130,"href":"https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4126\/revisions\/4130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5riversinternational.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}