{"id":317,"date":"2010-08-17T00:29:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-17T00:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marklydecker.com\/?p=317"},"modified":"2011-08-15T20:19:48","modified_gmt":"2011-08-16T00:19:48","slug":"ism-rocks-in-tampa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marklydecker.com\/?p=317","title":{"rendered":"ISM Rocks in Tampa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I received a call from Joseph Pardo. \u00a0Joseph is the USF director of the <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.usfbcm.com\/internationals\/\">Friends of Internationals<\/a> student ministry at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usf.edu\">USF<\/a>. This is the ministry my wife Lynn and I founded in 1998. Joseph and his wife Daisy, along with their 3 preschoolers, have been serving well there for over 2 years. \u00a0They anticipate another great year and have gotten lots of help in their work.<\/p>\n<p>This year, the Pardo&#8217;s were able to set up airport transportation for 98 incoming graduate students. \u00a0Each of these students will be greeted at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tampaairport.com\">Tampa airpor<\/a>t and assisted as they settle in to their new home at USF. \u00a0It all begins this week. \u00a0All of this is a prelude to lots of interaction with Americans, tons of personal assisting, and a great door to show international students what it means to be a Christian who loves the world that has come to our doorstep.<\/p>\n<p>If you live in Tampa, call Joseph at 813-988-6500 to ask him how you can help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I received a call from Joseph Pardo. \u00a0Joseph is the USF director of the Friends of Internationals student ministry at USF. This is the ministry my wife Lynn and I founded in 1998. Joseph and his wife Daisy, along with their 3 preschoolers, have been serving well there for over 2 years. \u00a0They anticipate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[62],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklydecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklydecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklydecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklydecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklydecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklydecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":325,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklydecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions\/325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklydecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklydecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklydecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}