{"id":3,"date":"2008-12-20T16:36:59","date_gmt":"2008-12-20T15:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmacalcutta.org\/wordpress\/?p=3"},"modified":"2010-04-03T19:19:13","modified_gmt":"2010-04-03T18:19:13","slug":"christmas-letter-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cmacalcutta.org\/?p=3","title":{"rendered":"Christmas letter 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5\" title=\"Artist impression of new CMA-building\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cmacalcutta.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/newbuild1.jpg\" alt=\"Artist impression of new CMA-building\" width=\"217\" height=\"135\" \/>The year 2008 was a year when Indian Christians had to pass the fiery furnace (I Peter 4:12) in different corners of India such as Orissa, Karnataka, Jharkhand, Assam, and Uttaranchal etc. Throughout this year the living Lord has shown us His grace, mercy and protecting hands and carried us in His wings (Isa. 40:31). By His grace for our Kolkata Love Presbyterian Church we baptized 7 people on Easter. We are also preparing 7 more to be baptized in Christmas. During this one year God has blessed us abundantly, and we praise Him with all our heart.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Read\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cmacalcutta.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/xmas20081.pdf\">Christmas Newsletter 2008<\/a>\u00a0(pdf)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The year 2008 was a year when Indian Christians had to pass the fiery furnace (I Peter 4:12) in different corners of India such as Orissa, Karnataka, Jharkhand, Assam, and Uttaranchal etc. Throughout this year the living Lord has shown us His grace, mercy and protecting hands and carried us in His wings (Isa. 40:31). [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cmacalcutta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cmacalcutta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cmacalcutta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmacalcutta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmacalcutta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmacalcutta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":386,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmacalcutta.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions\/386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cmacalcutta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmacalcutta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmacalcutta.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}