{"id":9,"date":"2011-05-07T17:15:26","date_gmt":"2011-05-07T17:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stefanosmihalios.com\/?page_id=9"},"modified":"2015-08-02T07:50:29","modified_gmt":"2015-08-02T07:50:29","slug":"why-greece","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stefanosmihalios.com\/?page_id=9","title":{"rendered":"Why Greece?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Greece is one of the most unreached countries in Europe, with less than 0.2% of the population having a personal relationship with Christ<\/li>\n<li>Greece has about 11,000,000 people that need to be exposed to the truth of the gospel<\/li>\n<li>The Greek Orthodox Church, the state religion, has lost her credibility and faithfulness to the gospel<\/li>\n<li>Atheism is on the rise, affecting the younger generation<\/li>\n<li>The current financial and ethical crisis in Greece is softening the ground for the gospel<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>The evangelical movement in Greece hurts from insufficient theological training and shortage of national workers<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h4>Additionally,<\/h4>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>We sense God&#8217;s calling for Greece and have a burden for the spiritual awakening of the Greek people<\/li>\n<li>Being Greek ourselves, we have a knowledge of the Greek language and culture and can communicate the gospel clearly<\/li>\n<li>We have been exposed to the spiritual needs of Greece and have a good relationship with the local church body<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h4>Our ministry focus in Greece:<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Biblical Training\" href=\"http:\/\/stefanosmihalios.com\/?page_id=11\">The development of well-trained national leaders<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Church Planting\" href=\"http:\/\/stefanosmihalios.com\/?page_id=13\">The establishment of new churches<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n[slideshow]\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greece is one of the most unreached countries in Europe, with less than 0.2% of the population having a personal relationship with Christ Greece has about 11,000,000 people that need to be exposed to the truth of the gospel The Greek Orthodox Church, the state religion, has lost her credibility and faithfulness to the gospel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":295,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefanosmihalios.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefanosmihalios.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefanosmihalios.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefanosmihalios.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefanosmihalios.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/stefanosmihalios.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":351,"href":"https:\/\/stefanosmihalios.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions\/351"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefanosmihalios.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefanosmihalios.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}