{"id":1845,"date":"2015-12-28T04:00:29","date_gmt":"2015-12-28T11:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/frontierlabourers.org\/?p=1845"},"modified":"2016-07-11T19:47:35","modified_gmt":"2016-07-12T02:47:35","slug":"a-big-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frontierlabourers.org\/?p=1845","title":{"rendered":"A Big Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #9a7843;\"><strong>Pastor Loha<\/strong> <\/span>of the Akha village, Banmai Pattana in Thailand had a big year in 2015. In March, a team from Valor Christian High School constructed an addition to the village\u2019s water system.<\/p>\n<p>Loha attended the Shepherds\u2019 Support pastor\u2019s and spouse\u2019s seminar, and hosted medical clinics with a team from International Medical Relief (IMR). Also in the Fall, Pastor Loha and Banmai Pattana dedicated their new church building.<\/p>\n<p>The once animist Akha people are rapidly coming to Christ. Because of the work of evangelists Ah Long, Simon, Ah Ye, and Ah Lo, tremendous church growth resulted in the need for a new building.<\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #9a7843;\">Thanks to<\/span> <span style=\"color: #4a70b0;\"><a style=\"color: #4a70b0;\" href=\"http:\/\/bvchurch.org\" target=\"_blank\">Bear Valley Church<\/a><\/span>, <span style=\"color: #9a7843;\"><span style=\"color: #4a70b0;\">Colorado<\/span> for its significant contribution to the construction project.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>Most of the Akha people group live outside of Thailand, and are almost entirely unreached with the Gospel. With such tremendous spiritual growth among the Akha and Lahu people groups in Thailand, the FLC leadership encourages these pastors and evangelists to reach out to other tribes, villages, and eventually into other countries of the region.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/frontierlabourers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_6981.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/frontierlabourers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_6981-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2181\" src=\"https:\/\/frontierlabourers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_6981-1.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6981\" width=\"956\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/frontierlabourers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_6981-1.jpg 956w, https:\/\/frontierlabourers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_6981-1-150x63.jpg 150w, https:\/\/frontierlabourers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_6981-1-300x126.jpg 300w, https:\/\/frontierlabourers.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_6981-1-768x321.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 956px) 100vw, 956px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pastor Loha of the Akha village, Banmai Pattana in Thailand had a big year in 2015. In March, a team from Valor Christian High School constructed an addition to the village\u2019s water system. Loha attended the Shepherds\u2019 Support pastor\u2019s and spouse\u2019s seminar, and hosted medical clinics with a team from International Medical Relief (IMR). Also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2179,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archived"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontierlabourers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontierlabourers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontierlabourers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontierlabourers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontierlabourers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1845"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/frontierlabourers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2010,"href":"https:\/\/frontierlabourers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1845\/revisions\/2010"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontierlabourers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontierlabourers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontierlabourers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontierlabourers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}