{"id":8,"date":"2013-10-14T21:55:46","date_gmt":"2013-10-14T21:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sograce.org\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2018-08-20T00:26:47","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T07:26:47","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/sograce.org\/","title":{"rendered":"Showers of Grace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Showers of Grace (SoG)<\/strong>, a non-profit, non-denominational, faith based and Christ-centered evangelistic organization headquartered in Los Angeles, California was founded to provide financial aid and to improve Christian educational opportunities presented in African rescue centers, seminaries and local churches in China.<\/p>\n<p>Our ministry serves, as a bridge to help fill the gaps of existing needs at rescue centers, seminaries and local churches through various means, especially for those small assemblies in remote villages. We are there as a part of a hopeful change that can encourage and inspire improvement to come true for the glory of God in building the body of Christ.<\/p>\n<p>People in China always ask, &#8220;why are you serving us in this way?&#8221; Our oldest founder Yok Lin Tam responds with her 3-point life experience without hesitation: &#8220;I have experienced God\u2019s abundant grace. I am deeply thankful and I am owing a debt of gratitude to God.&#8221; Here she is. At the age of about 90, she rested on a flat spot in the hilly village in Liangshan, Sichuan before ventured down the hill to the unfinished church building.<\/p>\n<p class=\"jetpack-slideshow-noscript robots-nocontent\">This slideshow requires JavaScript.<\/p><div id=\"gallery-8-1-slideshow\" class=\"jetpack-slideshow-window jetpack-slideshow jetpack-slideshow-black\" data-trans=\"fade\" data-autostart=\"1\" data-gallery=\"[{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/sograce.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2018\\\/08\\\/CIMG3340-1024x768.jpg&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;120&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;CIMG3340&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;itemprop&quot;:&quot;image&quot;},{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/sograce.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2018\\\/08\\\/CIMG3333-1024x768.jpg&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;119&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;CIMG3333&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;itemprop&quot;:&quot;image&quot;},{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/sograce.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2018\\\/08\\\/CIMG3331-1024x768.jpg&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;118&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;CIMG3331&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;itemprop&quot;:&quot;image&quot;},{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/sograce.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2018\\\/08\\\/CIMG3322-1024x768.jpg&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;117&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;CIMG3322&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;itemprop&quot;:&quot;image&quot;},{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/sograce.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2018\\\/08\\\/CIMG3306-1024x768.jpg&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;116&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;CIMG3306&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;itemprop&quot;:&quot;image&quot;},{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/sograce.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2018\\\/08\\\/CIMG3296-1024x768.jpg&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;115&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;CIMG3296&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;itemprop&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}]\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageGallery\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Showers of Grace (SoG), a non-profit, non-denominational, faith based and Christ-centered evangelistic organization headquartered in Los Angeles, California was founded to provide financial aid and to improve Christian educational opportunities presented in African rescue centers, seminaries and local&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/sograce.org\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/PaaQ6S-8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sograce.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sograce.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sograce.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sograce.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sograce.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"http:\/\/sograce.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":299,"href":"http:\/\/sograce.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions\/299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sograce.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}