{"id":1336,"date":"2014-03-30T20:48:17","date_gmt":"2014-03-31T00:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/?p=1336"},"modified":"2014-08-15T08:19:06","modified_gmt":"2014-08-15T12:19:06","slug":"thank-you-from-the-gideons-33014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/?p=1336","title":{"rendered":"Thank You from the Gideons! (3\/30\/14)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Chapel-Bible-_0728041326-x600.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2803\" src=\"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Chapel-Bible-_0728041326-x600-300x167.jpg\" alt=\"Chapel Bible _0728041326 x600\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Chapel-Bible-_0728041326-x600-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Chapel-Bible-_0728041326-x600.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Last month, Wayne Murphy, a representative from the Gideons visited our church and shared about his ministry in providing Bibles.\u00a0 Because of our support for them, they will be able to deliver 27 Bibles (or 107 Testaments)\u00a0 to a world hungry for God&#8217;s Word.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">To learn more about the Gideons, check out their<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #000080;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gideons.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000080; text-decoration: underline;\">website<\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<h6><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><em>Think of the Gideons the next time\u00a0 you&#8217;re in a hotel room&#8230;<\/em><\/span><\/h6>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><div class='et-box et-info'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class='et-box-content'><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">So how did this group get started putting Bibles in hotel rooms&#8230;. and why are they called the Gideons? <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The name Gideons came from the leader named Gideon, whose story is told in Judges chapters 6 and 7. Gideon was a military leader who learned that it was God who accomplished much with little.\u00a0 Gideon&#8217;s army was reduced and reduced by God until it was clear that it could only be that God was giving them the victory.\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Gideons were started by a group of businessmen who wanted to use their time and personal encounters while staying in hotels to witness their faith to fellow travelers.\u00a0 The got the (crazy) idea of placing a Bible in every hotel room in the United States.\u00a0 That &#8220;crazy&#8221; idea in 1908 turned out to be not so crazy afterall; 100 years later they have distributed over 1.8 billion Bibles worldwide.\u00a0 The next time you stay in a hotel, you&#8217;ll probably see one of them!\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">For more information on the history of the Gideons, check out this message on their website: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #000080;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gideons.org\/AboutUs\/OurHistory.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000080; text-decoration: underline;\">http:\/\/www.gideons.org\/AboutUs\/OurHistory.aspx<\/span><\/a> <\/span><\/div><\/div><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, Wayne Murphy, a representative from the Gideons visited our church and shared about his ministry in providing Bibles.\u00a0 Because of our support for them, they will be able to deliver 27 Bibles (or 107 Testaments)\u00a0 to a world hungry for God&#8217;s Word. &nbsp; &nbsp; To learn more about the Gideons, check out their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,52,57,56],"tags":[125,66,81,67],"class_list":["post-1336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evrpt","category-grouppresentations","category-mission-global","category-mission-njandcountry","tag-bible","tag-bible-study","tag-giveserve","tag-missions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1336"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3031,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336\/revisions\/3031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmanumc.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}