{"id":1970,"date":"2019-10-22T18:53:43","date_gmt":"2019-10-23T01:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/?p=1970"},"modified":"2025-12-23T13:02:37","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T20:02:37","slug":"african-young-people-send-greetings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/2019\/10\/22\/african-young-people-send-greetings\/","title":{"rendered":"African young people send greetings"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1971\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1971\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1971\" src=\"http:\/\/belzglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/IMG_4308-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"616\" srcset=\"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/IMG_4308-copy.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/IMG_4308-copy-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/IMG_4308-copy-768x462.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1971\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kenyan secondary school<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I&#8217;ve just returned from another set of trainings in Africa, this time to rural southern Kenya and urban Abidjan, Ivory Coast. Two very different environments, but with some striking similarities. One similarity is the African young people. As Kenyan youth prepared for their National Exams, I was invited to speak at a number of schools, offer a message of encouragement, and pray for those taking the exams. I caught videos of several different groups (both in Kenya and Ivory Coast) giving greetings to our home church (Littlerock Community Fellowship) and a bit of worship at the end. I hope you enjoy this video.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">CLICK VIDEO BELOW TO SEE GREETINGS FROM AFRICAN KIDS<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 474px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-1970-1\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/belzglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Africa-kids.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/belzglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Africa-kids.mp4\">http:\/\/belzglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Africa-kids.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just returned from another set of trainings in Africa, this time to rural southern Kenya and urban Abidjan, Ivory Coast. Two very different environments, but with some striking similarities. One similarity is the African young people. As Kenyan youth prepared for their National Exams, I was invited to speak at a number of schools, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/2019\/10\/22\/african-young-people-send-greetings\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">African young people send greetings<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mission-updates","category-video-updates-from-the-field"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1973,"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1970\/revisions\/1973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}