{"id":7,"date":"2008-07-23T20:00:16","date_gmt":"2008-07-24T03:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.randybaldwin.com\/costarica\/?p=5"},"modified":"2011-03-11T16:44:55","modified_gmt":"2011-03-11T22:44:55","slug":"fundraising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.randybaldwin.com\/costarica\/2008\/07\/23\/fundraising\/","title":{"rendered":"fundraising"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a part of the entire missionary experience, I sent out a few fundraising letters via email to mostly family members. The cost of this trip is not unreasonable, and Julie and I are in a place where we could set aside the complete cost of the trip without breaking the bank. However, the missionary state-of-mind is that of doing service for others in the name of Jesus Christ. If I were to fork over the complete bill for the cost, who would I be accountable to for my actions as a servant? It would be nothing more than a glorified vacation with some community service on the side.<\/p>\n<p>As a missionary, I have asked a few people to donate in my name to the cost of the trip as a reminder that I am serving a greater purpose, and those people are giving out of the goodness of their heart for something that they, too believe in.<\/p>\n<p>I am proud to say that 92% of my trip has been paid for!! I thank all of you that contributed as well as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uchurch.tv\/\">UUMC<\/a> for its scholarship funds provided.<\/p>\n<p>-RB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a part of the entire missionary experience, I sent out a few fundraising letters via email to mostly family members. The cost of this trip is not unreasonable, and Julie and I are in a place where we could set aside the complete cost of the trip without breaking the bank. However, the missionary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pre-trip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.randybaldwin.com\/costarica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.randybaldwin.com\/costarica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.randybaldwin.com\/costarica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.randybaldwin.com\/costarica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.randybaldwin.com\/costarica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.randybaldwin.com\/costarica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.randybaldwin.com\/costarica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions\/115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.randybaldwin.com\/costarica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.randybaldwin.com\/costarica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.randybaldwin.com\/costarica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}