{"id":7383,"date":"2008-07-22T15:51:44","date_gmt":"2008-07-22T15:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/usa_today_americans_finding_purpose_in_hopes_for_africas_future\/"},"modified":"2008-07-22T15:51:44","modified_gmt":"2008-07-22T15:51:44","slug":"usa_today_americans_finding_purpose_in_hopes_for_africas_future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=7383","title":{"rendered":"USA Today: Americans finding purpose in hopes for Africa&#39;s future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the last day of spring, Tom Wheeler left home in Southern California with his wife, his two kids and two audacious dreams.<\/p>\n<p>As a civil engineer, he hopes to bring standard, nicely paved sidewalks to a city with almost none.<\/p>\n<p>As a follower of Rick Warren, the evangelist who wrote the bestseller The Purpose Driven Life, Wheeler dreams of making Rwanda the world&#8217;s first &#8220;purpose-driven nation.&#8221; That means spreading the Gospel and helping this tiny African country, which 14 years ago endured the worst genocide since the Holocaust, continue its unlikely journey toward peace and prosperity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Rick challenged us all to go out,&#8221; Wheeler says. He and his wife, Lori, &#8220;wanted to serve God, and we wanted to be part of something big.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/world\/2008-07-21-rwanda_N.htm\" title=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/world\/2008-07-21-rwanda_N.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the last day of spring, Tom Wheeler left home in Southern California with his wife, his two kids and two audacious dreams. As a civil engineer, he hopes to bring standard, nicely paved sidewalks to a city with almost<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=7383\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,42,202,209,419,154,108,344],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-africa","category-americau-s-a","category-evangelicals","category-other-churches","category-religion-culture","category-rwanda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}