{"id":12298,"date":"2018-10-01T10:13:03","date_gmt":"2018-10-01T10:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=12298"},"modified":"2018-10-01T10:13:03","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T10:13:03","slug":"12298","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=12298","title":{"rendered":"Happy Independence Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From\u00a0<strong>Patrick Anyanwu, <\/strong>in Lagos<br \/>\nHappy Anniversary Nigeria!<br \/>\nTo you Nigerian or associate of Nigeria, because you have at least one person in Nigeria: me:<br \/>\nYesterday at church, I saw a drama that very creatively summarised the challenge: Nigeria. It brought tears to my eyes and yet hope to me. Later, I read a piece that simply catalogued some of the great brains God has blessed Nigeria with and serving humanity in other lands, vis-a-vis our gapping need back home for innovative and exportable solutions to our and global needs and challenges.<br \/>\nYou may relate with that differently, but one effect on me is just imagining the great blessing the Nigerian church will be with a different Nigeria. For one, mission stories from Nigeria would souuuund different!<br \/>\nEven as things are, she&#8217;s still:<br \/>\n*The wealthiest church among the countries of the 10\/40 window, a region of the world with the highest concentration of the world&#8217;s poorest and most Unreached (with the gospel) people groups;<br \/>\n*the country in the region with the largest church population.<br \/>\n<strong>Join me today to imagine. Join me to pray<\/strong>!<br \/>\nMeanwhile let this song, Great Nation by Timi Dakolo, inspire and encourage you.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Timi Dakolo - Great Nation [Official Video]\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y2OhlyXx3kE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<strong>Happy Independence!<\/strong><br \/>\n\u25aa<strong>Anyanwu, a multi-media specialist, is a Christian worker based in Lagos. He can be reached via patrick.ijeoma@gmail.com; and WhatsApp number 08026234360.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From\u00a0Patrick Anyanwu, in Lagos Happy Anniversary Nigeria! To you Nigerian or associate of Nigeria, because you have at least one person in Nigeria: me: Yesterday at church, I saw a drama that very creatively summarised the challenge: Nigeria. It brought tears to my eyes and yet hope to me. Later, I read a piece that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":12311,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}