{"id":2191,"date":"2020-06-08T12:11:18","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T19:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/?p=2191"},"modified":"2025-12-23T13:01:58","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T20:01:58","slug":"helping-the-nations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/2020\/06\/08\/helping-the-nations\/","title":{"rendered":"Holistic help for the nations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear ministry partners, over the past several weeks I&#8217;ve shared with you about significant challenges global communities are feeling as pastors I work with attempt to care for many during pandemic days. Pastors themselves have very little since there are no offerings from church while meetings are prohibited, but then many from their churches also come to them for assistance. During these days when travel is restricted, in addition to dissertation work, I&#8217;m staying connected with our many global partners, trying to help them spiritually, emotionally and physically. Some friends and I have pooled personal resources and sent money to offer practical assistance to a number of pastors globally, and through them helping those who are most acutely feeling the struggle. Praise God that the church is reaching out holistically in these days with spiritual help and physical help. May we capitalize on every opportunity to bless others in our sphere of influence, as these dear brothers and sisters demonstrate. Please keep them in your prayers.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2193\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2193\" style=\"width: 276px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2193\" src=\"http:\/\/belzglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Uganda-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"276\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Uganda-2.jpg 276w, https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Uganda-2-180x300.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 276px) 100vw, 276px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2193\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In northern Uganda, my good friend Pastor Paul distributes much needed food from donations we sent<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2192\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2192\" style=\"width: 276px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2192\" src=\"http:\/\/belzglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Uganda-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"276\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Uganda-1.jpg 276w, https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Uganda-1-180x300.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 276px) 100vw, 276px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2192\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Northern Uganda food distribution<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2194\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2194\" style=\"width: 468px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2194\" src=\"http:\/\/belzglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Narok-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"468\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Narok-1.jpg 468w, https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Narok-1-300x146.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2194\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In northern Kenya, Pastor David and Pastor Jackson distribute food to the Masai community<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Enjoy this brief thank you video from Pastor Jackson as they have blessed 27 Masai families in their community:<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 474px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-2191-1\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/belzglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Masai-thank-you.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/belzglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Masai-thank-you.mp4\">http:\/\/belzglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Masai-thank-you.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2197\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2197\" style=\"width: 468px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2197\" src=\"http:\/\/belzglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Nepal-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"468\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Nepal-1.jpg 468w, https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Nepal-1-300x146.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2197\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pastor Samuel and his team offer assistance to those in need in Nepal<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2198\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2198\" style=\"width: 468px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2198\" src=\"http:\/\/belzglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Nepal-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"468\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Nepal-2.png 468w, https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Nepal-2-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2198\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In Kathmandu bags of food are offered to those without<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear ministry partners, over the past several weeks I&#8217;ve shared with you about significant challenges global communities are feeling as pastors I work with attempt to care for many during pandemic days. Pastors themselves have very little since there are no offerings from church while meetings are prohibited, but then many from their churches also &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/2020\/06\/08\/helping-the-nations\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Holistic help for the nations<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mission-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2191","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=2191"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2202,"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2191\/revisions\/2202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/belzglobal.com\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}