{"id":781,"date":"2011-12-12T09:24:27","date_gmt":"2011-12-12T16:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/stcblog\/?p=781"},"modified":"2011-12-12T09:24:27","modified_gmt":"2011-12-12T16:24:27","slug":"report-on-bens-trip-to-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/?p=781","title":{"rendered":"Report on Ben&#039;s Trip to Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BEN\u2019S MISSION TRIP TO TOHOKU, July 15 to August 3, 2011.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/stcblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/ben_tohoku.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/stcblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/ben_tohoku-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"ben_tohoku\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-787\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nBen had a great trip to the tsunami area (north of any radiation) where his team of 8 served many people by restoring homes and car-ing for the needs of refugees. Ben\u2019s team worked in Kessen-numa and Rikuzen-takata.<br \/>\nOne couple they helped, the Kumagais, had a home where the first floor was a res-taurant. The tsunami came crashing into the first floor, but that was as far as it came! Although the couple worked hard to clean up the restaurant, they couldn&#8217;t\u2019 do it alone. Ben\u2019s team came alongside them and cleaned floors, windows, and dishes until everything was shiny and ready. The ham-burger steak place is once again serving meals! Ben\u2019s team was also able to share the love of Christ and the gospel with them. Please pray for their salvation.<br \/>\nThanks for praying for his trip. Ben seemed to really grow through the experience. He has started taking on more leadership com-mitments with Cru at UCF where he is a senior this year. He is helping lead a small group Bible study and learning lots from special Cru confer-ences. Pray for God\u2019s work through him.<br \/>\nVideo from his team here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/video\/video.php?v=2039499636544\">Team Video.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEN\u2019S MISSION TRIP TO TOHOKU, July 15 to August 3, 2011. Ben had a great trip to the tsunami area (north of any radiation) where his team of 8 served many people by restoring homes and car-ing for the needs<\/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-781","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\/781","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=781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steveclark.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}