{"id":2999,"date":"2010-03-01T12:29:27","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T17:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=2999"},"modified":"2010-03-01T12:29:27","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T17:29:27","slug":"reaching-a-million-for-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/?p=2999","title":{"rendered":"Reaching A Million for $1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had heard a story a number of times since attending a Christian &amp; Missionary Alliance church; the missionary who couldn&#8217;t raise any money to buy a property, but when one child sent in a buck, the seller sold it for that one dollar.&#160; The details changed a bit each time I heard it (one time it was China, another Hong Kong; one time it was a building, another it was a property; the circumstances around the final sale changed a bit, etc.), which is a hallmark of an urban legend, and so I was a little skeptical.<\/p>\n<p>But sometimes the story is true; it&#8217;s just that gets the old &quot;Telephone Game&quot; treatment.&#160; But at our Missions Conference this week, they played a video of the missionary to whom this happened.&#160; So straight from the horse&#8217;s mouth, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmalliance.org\/video\/play\/164-china-heritage\">here&#8217;s the story<\/a> of a child&#8217;s ice cream money that opened up an avenue of ministry to reach over 1 million young people with the gospel message.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><object width=\"400\" height=\"225\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/video.cmalliance.org\/embed\/small\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><param name=\"vid\" value=\"164\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/video.cmalliance.org\/embed\/small?vid=164\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had heard a story a number of times since attending a Christian &amp; Missionary Alliance church; the missionary who couldn&#8217;t raise any money to buy a property, but when one child sent in a buck, the seller sold it for that one dollar.&#160; The details changed a bit each time I heard it (one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,9,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","category-doug","category-religion"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stonescryout.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}