{"id":7473,"date":"2019-09-30T04:19:53","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/william-careys-sister\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:19:53","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:19:53","slug":"william-careys-sister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/william-careys-sister\/","title":{"rendered":"William Carey&#8217;s Sister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many people know of William Carey, the &#8220;father of modern missions.&#8221;  But few people have heard of his sister.  She was a quadriplegic and had to be carried from bed to couch.  For 50 years she lay in bed and prayed for William Carey.  She wrote him encouraging letters &#8212; with a pencil between her teeth.  Her ministry was perhaps more important because she was a silent partner.  Certainly William Carey realized God\u2019s blessing was as much a result of his sister\u2019s commitment to pray for his ministry as was his dedication to serve God.<\/p>\n<p>________<\/p>\n<p>Dan Harrison, A Living Legacy; Preaching Now,  http:\/\/www.preaching.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many people know of William Carey, the &#8220;father of modern missions.&#8221; But few people have heard of his sister. She was a quadriplegic and had to be carried from bed to couch. For 50 years she lay in bed and prayed for William Carey. She wrote him encouraging letters &#8212; with a pencil between her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1045,143,5347],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7473"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}