{"id":1604,"date":"2015-06-11T20:03:08","date_gmt":"2015-06-12T00:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/?p=1604"},"modified":"2015-06-11T20:04:20","modified_gmt":"2015-06-12T00:04:20","slug":"life-changed-leads-to-new-church-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/?p=1604","title":{"rendered":"Life Changed Leads to New Church Plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Your partnership is helping us prepare and send more workers to bring the hope of the gospel to more corners of the world!<br \/>\nWe recently sent Scott and Angie Bentley to Australia to support and develop the ministries of the staff there. Consider their story from one of the community ministry staff they serve.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/ryan-baptizes-pat-australia-GCM-story-may-2015.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/ryan-baptizes-pat-australia-GCM-story-may-2015-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"ryan baptizes pat australia GCM story may 2015\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1605\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/ryan-baptizes-pat-australia-GCM-story-may-2015-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/ryan-baptizes-pat-australia-GCM-story-may-2015.jpg 564w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Six months ago, Australian Cru missionary Ryan ran into a youth who attends a weekly BBQ and sports activity that Ryan helps run. Ryan also met the young man\u2019s brother, Pat, and discovered that Pat had recently been released from prison.<br \/>\n          Ryan asked Pat, \u2018Where is God in your life?\u2019 That question stumped and stirred something within Pat. He was well aware of the background of abandonment, violence, frequent prison bouts and brokenness that had shaped his life.<br \/>\n          Ryan\u2019s simple question sparked the beginning of Pat\u2019s spiritual journey to Jesus.  Pat started coming to the small church which Ryan helped launch in a nearby town.<br \/>\nTwo months ago, Pat read a Cru booklet called, \u201cSatisfied?\u201d He finally understood what God had done for him on the cross and broke down in tears. He was ready for Jesus to change him.<br \/>\nSince then, Pat can\u2019t stop talking about Christ. Recently he asked to be baptized by Ryan. Now Ryan and Pat are starting a study group with Pat\u2019s family and friends who want to know Jesus!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your partnership is helping us prepare and send more workers to bring the hope of the gospel to more corners of the world! We recently sent Scott and Angie Bentley to Australia to support and develop the ministries of the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-from-the-clarks","category-pl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1604"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1607,"href":"https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604\/revisions\/1607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}