{"id":4250,"date":"2016-03-08T11:43:09","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T16:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/?p=4250"},"modified":"2016-03-08T11:43:09","modified_gmt":"2016-03-08T16:43:09","slug":"lenten-challenge-24-stand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/lenten-challenge-24-stand\/","title":{"rendered":"Lenten Challenge #24: Stand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Choose not to shy away from a cause today.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.40acts.org.uk\/the-challenge\/stand\/\" target=\"_blank\">Today&#8217;s challenge<\/a> is to consider what cause you are passionate about and then to listen for God&#8217;s prompting on what you might do about it &#8211; daring to believe that you can be used.<\/p>\n<p>Many years ago I signed my first internet petition. Now I get bombarded with requests. I appreciate those who send along links to information that background stories can be checked. I don&#8217;t sign my name unless I believe in the cause.<\/p>\n<p>As well, I support various organizations that are trying to make the world a better place. <a href=\"http:\/\/mcccanada.ca\" target=\"_blank\">Mennonite Central Committee<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcrs.ca\" target=\"_blank\">Mennonite Coalition for Refugee Support<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/team.org\/serve?gclid=CLa2merDscsCFQqsaQodaYkLMA\" target=\"_blank\">International Teams<\/a>, along with my local and national church are the ones I give to regularly. I also give a small monthly donation to <a href=\"https:\/\/avaaz.org\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\">Avaaz<\/a>, and sometime to <a href=\"https:\/\/openmedia.org\" target=\"_blank\">Open Media<\/a> because I believe in an open internet. My voice may be small, but many voices together can make a big noise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Choose not to shy away from a cause today.&#8221; Today&#8217;s challenge is to consider what cause you are passionate about and then to listen for God&#8217;s prompting on what you might do about it &#8211; daring to believe that you can be used. Many years ago I signed my first internet petition. Now I get &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/lenten-challenge-24-stand\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lenten Challenge #24: Stand&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,37],"tags":[89,87],"class_list":["post-4250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","category-update","tag-40acts","tag-lent"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4250"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4254,"href":"http:\/\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4250\/revisions\/4254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/baburkard.com\/crochet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}