{"id":581,"date":"2011-03-13T15:57:10","date_gmt":"2011-03-13T22:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/stcblog\/?p=581"},"modified":"2011-03-13T15:57:10","modified_gmt":"2011-03-13T22:57:10","slug":"student-conference-in-tokyo-mar-14-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/?p=581","title":{"rendered":"First-Hand Accounts of Earthquake in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/stcblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/prayforjapanearthquakejessikacnn.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/stcblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/prayforjapanearthquakejessikacnn-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Jessica Tekawa on CNN\" title=\"prayforjapanearthquakejessikacnn\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-595\" \/><\/a>One of our staff in Tokyo, Jessica, experienced the earthquake and aftershocks. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jessicatekawa.com\/JessicaJoy\/Blog\/Entries\/2011\/3\/12_Earthquake.html\">Read her account of events in Tokyo here.<\/a> She shared in an e-mail, &#8221; The good thing is as with any natural disaster or tough experience in life, people tend to be more open to talk about what&#8217;s important in life making it easier for us believers to share why we love Jesus so much and why it&#8217;s so important to have a relationship with him.  Our national student conference (CHANGE conference) begins this Monday and we&#8217;ll be having a day of outreach where we&#8217;ll have these kinds of conversations with people all over Tokyo.  Please pray for the hearts and healing of Japan. &#8221;<br \/>\nOur friends Gary and Jan Bowman, also in Tokyo, share <a href=\"http:\/\/steveclark.us\/prayerlt\/plbowman.pdf\">this account and plans for assisting with relief<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of our staff in Tokyo, Jessica, experienced the earthquake and aftershocks. Read her account of events in Tokyo here. She shared in an e-mail, &#8221; The good thing is as with any natural disaster or tough experience in life,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-from-the-clarks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581","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=581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}