{"id":265,"date":"2015-10-09T08:15:51","date_gmt":"2015-10-09T13:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.timandtammynorman.com\/?p=265"},"modified":"2015-10-09T08:15:51","modified_gmt":"2015-10-09T13:15:51","slug":"chinese-students-explore-god-in-dallas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/timandtammynorman.com\/?p=265","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Students Explore God in Dallas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>I spoke <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-266 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gcx.org\/NormanMinistry\/files\/2015\/10\/Chinese-150x150.png\" alt=\"Chinese\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>at a retreat for our Dallas and Ft Worth campus movements a few weeks ago. A few leaders on campuses like TCU and UT-Arlington had started discussion groups on campus for non-believers&#8211;called Explore God groups. Several churches throughout the Dallas area have been participating in an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.exploregod.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Explore God<\/a> campaign, which includes billboards along the highways.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.exploregod.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.exploregod.com\/files\/large\/14381\" alt=\"\" width=\"153\" height=\"134\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>Two Chinese students who have been going to an Explore God group came to the Fall Retreat. I spoke with both of them a few times over the weekend. They arrived in the US 5 weeks ago.\u00a0One of the students said that growing up she would often ask her mom about God, but her mom would put her off saying, &#8220;How can I answer your questions about God?&#8221; After the first week at Explore God she was thrilled to find out she could keep coming to the group even though she didn&#8217;t believe in God yet. She called her mom to tell her, &#8220;Finally, mom, I have a place I can ask my questions and find answers.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spoke at a retreat for our Dallas and Ft Worth campus movements a few weeks ago. A few leaders on campuses like TCU and UT-Arlington had started discussion groups on campus for non-believers&#8211;called Explore God groups. Several churches throughout the Dallas area have been participating in an Explore God campaign, which includes billboards along&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/timandtammynorman.com\/?p=265\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chinese Students Explore God in Dallas<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":266,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/timandtammynorman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/timandtammynorman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/timandtammynorman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/timandtammynorman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/timandtammynorman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/timandtammynorman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/timandtammynorman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/timandtammynorman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/timandtammynorman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/timandtammynorman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}