{"id":3354,"date":"2022-03-02T18:33:20","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T23:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/?p=3354"},"modified":"2022-03-02T18:33:20","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T23:33:20","slug":"prayer-for-peace-from-cambodia-to-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/2022\/prayer-for-peace-from-cambodia-to-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Prayer for Peace, from Cambodia to Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Monika, from Cambodia, served in Ukraine with MCC&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/2019\/what-are-yamen-and-salt\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"808\">YAMEN program<\/a> from 2019 to 2020. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"624\" height=\"468\" data-id=\"3352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Picture3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Picture3.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Picture3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Picture3-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><figcaption>Monika with her co-workers at her placement in Ukraine.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"624\" height=\"468\" data-id=\"3351\" src=\"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Picture1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Picture1.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Picture1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Picture1-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><figcaption>Monika with her Ukrainian Mennonite host family.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I shared some of her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/2022\/war-peace-and-yamen\/\">social media posts<\/a> in an earlier post and I wanted to follow-up by sharing her prayer for peace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>The Lord of peace, the Lord of love, I kneel here, crying and pleading, waiting for the miracles that you will provide to Ukraine, for your people both male and female, old and young who are threatened under the flames of war. We believe and know that God is hearing our prayers. You extend your mighty hands to save them. We believe that you will do great things for the people of Ukraine throughout the whole country. We are united in one voice for one purpose, please protect and rescue them from the flames of war, because you are the God of peace, the God of salvation. May you look upon all the innocent people who are sleeping in fear and in shock. We lift up Ukraine and all their people in your hands. In the name of Jesus, whom we believe and trust, at your mercy, may the war be stopped. May the bloodshed end. May everything end with negotiation and peace. Amen.<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monika, from Cambodia, served in Ukraine with MCC&#8217;s YAMEN program from 2019 to 2020. I shared some of her social media posts in an earlier post and I wanted to follow-up by sharing her prayer for peace. The Lord of peace, the Lord of love, I kneel here, crying and pleading, waiting for the miracles&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/2022\/prayer-for-peace-from-cambodia-to-ukraine\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3350,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[192],"tags":[94,104],"class_list":["post-3354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mcc-around-the-world","tag-peace","tag-yamen","post_format-post-format-image"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Picture2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paVixa-S6","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3355,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3354\/revisions\/3355"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}