{"id":2135,"date":"2012-10-03T12:58:45","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T16:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/?p=2135"},"modified":"2014-09-12T09:32:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T13:32:00","slug":"2135","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/2012\/10\/03\/2135\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Jesus&#8217; Influence toward Peacebuilding&#8221; &#8211; Dann and Joji Pantoja"},"content":{"rendered":"<audio controls src=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/media\/podcasts\/10.02.12--DannAndJojiPantojaSemChap.mp3\">Your browser does not support the audio element.<\/audio>\n<p>On two separate\u00a0 occasions this week, the EMU Campus had the opportunity to hear and visit with Dann and Joji Pantoja, MCC Canada Witness workers hosted locally by Virginia Mennonite Mission.\u00a0 In these chapels, the couple gives witness to Jesus\u2019 influence on their lives and peacebuilding.<\/p>\n<p>As a young man raised in a church planting family, it was the radical communism sweeping through the Philippines that fired Dann\u2019s imagination; later, it was a purge within those ranks that led to Dann\u2019s emigration from the Philippines to Canada. After 911, God led Dann to eschew violence and embrace a theology of peace. A gifted communicator and effective organizer, Dann has returned to the Philippines, founding <a href=\"http:\/\/peacebuilderscommunity.org\/\">Peacebuilders Community<\/a> in conflict ridden Mindanao. When asked what fuels his excitement and positive outlook in life despite the negative stuff happening around him, he responds, \u201cIt\u2019s the positive influence of Jesus\u2014a 1st century Palestinian carpenter who was executed by the imperial power of his time. He said: \u201cWhoever tries to keep his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life will preserve it.\u201d He defied death\u2014the ultimate negative factor in our cosmos.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dann\u2019s wife Joji left a successful career in the investment and financial industry to join Dann in ministry in Mindanao, realizing that sustainable economic development is crucial to her people\u2019s search for just-peace. She says, \u201cI can\u2019t imagine having a summary of my life printed on my tombstone as: \u201cSpent her life managing rich people\u2019s money.\u201dI want to be remembered as: \u201cA person who walked with the people as they find dignity through sustainable economic development.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"emu-podcast-embed\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/media\/podcasts\/10.02.12--DannAndJojiPantojaSemChap.mp3\">Your browser does not support the audio element.<\/audio><\/div><p>On two separate\u00a0 occasions this week, the EMU Campus had the opportunity to hear and visit with Dann and Joji Pantoja, MCC Canada Witness workers hosted locally by Virginia Mennonite Mission.\u00a0 In these chapels, the couple gives witness to Jesus\u2019 influence on their lives and peacebuilding. As a young man raised in a church planting....<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,409],"tags":[4217,4218],"class_list":["post-2135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seminary-chapels","category-chapel","tag-dann-and-joji-pantoja","tag-joji-pantoja","has-post-thumbnail","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2135"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2138,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135\/revisions\/2138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}