{"id":15,"date":"2015-05-12T19:28:40","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T19:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bm2na.org\/wordpress\/?page_id=15"},"modified":"2015-05-12T19:29:12","modified_gmt":"2015-05-12T19:29:12","slug":"our-founder","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/bm2na.org\/wordpress\/about\/our-founder\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Founder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Russell&#8217;s testimony<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I trusted the Lord Jesus Christ as my Saviour when I was 12 years old. When I was 22 years, I dedicated my life to serve the Lord as long as I live on the earth.<\/p>\n<p>I have not always obeyed God&#8217;s Word as I should, but the Lord Jesus Christ was always ready to forgive and help me walk the Christian pathway.<\/p>\n<p>For many years, I was a pastor of a church. Then in 1961, I became a missionary to our Native Americans. WHY? Because I want our Native Americans to know my Lord Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n<p>To know that the Lord Jesus Christ loves them.<br \/>\nTo know that the Lord Jesus Christ forgives sins and all the wrong things that we do.<br \/>\nTo know that the Lord Jesus Christ will give the spiritual life that lasts forever to all who trust Him.<br \/>\nTo know that in this life of trials and heartaches the Lord Jesus Christ gives sweet peace, joy and satisfies the longings of the heart.<br \/>\nI pray that you, my Native American, will put your trust in the Lord Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n<p>Your missionary and friend in Jesus Christ,<\/p>\n<p><em>Pastor Russell Edmondson<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russell&#8217;s testimony I trusted the Lord Jesus Christ as my Saviour when I was 12 years old. When I was 22 years, I dedicated my life to serve the Lord as long as I live on the earth. I have not always obeyed God&#8217;s Word as I should, but the Lord Jesus Christ was always &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bm2na.org\/wordpress\/about\/our-founder\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Our Founder<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":7,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-15","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bm2na.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bm2na.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bm2na.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bm2na.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bm2na.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bm2na.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16,"href":"http:\/\/bm2na.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions\/16"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bm2na.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bm2na.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}