{"id":924,"date":"2010-07-10T23:31:59","date_gmt":"2010-07-11T03:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fortispress.com\/blog\/?p=924"},"modified":"2010-07-10T23:31:59","modified_gmt":"2010-07-11T03:31:59","slug":"a-brothers-influence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/?p=924","title":{"rendered":"A Brother&#8217;s Influence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When my brother Craig was in his 20s, he ran a Christian coffee house on a seedy street in inner-city Dallas. I remember stories of self-proclaimed warlocks with whom he boldly shared the Good News of Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>Not long after, Craig moved to Arizona where he lived most of his adult life, much of it as a successful stock broker.<\/p>\n<p>Now in his 60s, my brother has begun a new life in Omaha where he volunteers twice a week at the Salvation Army, and where, along with his wife Patty, he is starting a house church in a disadvantaged neighborhood. It&#8217;s hard, often thankless work.<\/p>\n<p>So, while 40 years ago I was challenged by his courage, today, I am moved by Craig&#8217;s compassion.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully, I leave here more aware of the poor in my own backyard, and, just as hopefully, more prone to do something about it.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you, Craig.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When my brother Craig was in his 20s, he ran a Christian coffee house on a seedy street in inner-city Dallas. I remember stories of self-proclaimed warlocks with whom he boldly shared the Good News of Jesus. Not long after, Craig moved to Arizona where he lived most of his adult life, much of it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}