{"id":2679,"date":"2025-07-25T07:51:31","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T07:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ag.lk\/web\/?p=2679"},"modified":"2025-07-25T07:51:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T07:51:31","slug":"rosa-marie-reineker-1910-1992","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ag.lk\/web\/index.php\/rosa-marie-reineker-1910-1992\/","title":{"rendered":"Rosa Marie Reineker   1910 \u2013 1992"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2681 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/ag.lk\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Reineker_-Rosa-M.-P8770.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"211\" height=\"360\" \/>Served in Sri Lanka 1937-1961, 1981-1985<\/p>\n<p>Sis. Reineker, of German birth, is remembered for long years of sacrificial service to the people of Sri Lanka.\u00a0 It is she who built the church in Jaffna. She later returned to serve us once more in the 1980\u2019s, when she was instrumental in the development of the new Bible College campus at Ja-Ela.<\/p>\n<p>Sis. Reineker impacted many peoples lives and below a short testimony of the impact she made to the father of a young girl , Julia Thomas.<\/p>\n<p><em>Growing up, I often heard the story of Rosa Reineker \u2014 a woman deeply committed to God, who felt a strong call to become a missionary but didn\u2019t know where she was meant to go. While studying at a Bible college in the USA, she wrestled with the uncertainty until one day, in frustration and faith, she spun a globe, closed her eyes, and placed her finger on it as it stopped. Her finger landed on a tiny island she had never heard of \u2014 Ceylon (now Sri Lanka).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Despite having no knowledge of the country and facing strong opposition from her family, she chose to follow God&#8217;s call. She arrived in Ceylon, full of faith, and began her ministry by going door to door. <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2682 alignright lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/ag.lk\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Reineker-Rosa-M.-1931.02.11-declaration-with-photo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 200px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 200\/200;\" \/>My father lived right next to where the current Assemblies of God church stands. The old wooden pews at the back of the church \u2014 they\u2019re still there today.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In those early days, she held Sunday school classes under the trees, before the church building was constructed. She used to bring wooden toy car keychains from Germany as little rewards for the kids who memorized their memory verses. My dad received one of those keychains.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Years later, when my dad passed away and I was just 13, Rosa came to visit our home. I showed her the toy keychains my dad had kept all those years. She broke dow\u00a0\u00a0 n in tears and said, \u201cWow\u2026 he kept it all these years.\u201d That keychain is now with my brother, Angelo Arulanandam<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>I\u2019m so grateful that when she was just 21, she spun that globe. Because she obeyed God\u2019s call, even when it didn\u2019t make sense, our family came to know Christ.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-2683 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/ag.lk\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-07-24-at-09.16.39.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"263\" height=\"292\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 263px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 263\/292;\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2684 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/ag.lk\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Reineker-Rosa-M.-1931.02.11-declaration-with-photo-40334_920600176_0704-00372.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"248\" height=\"300\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 248px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 248\/300;\" \/><em><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2688 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/ag.lk\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Reineker_-Rosa-M.-Christ-for-Ceylon-prayer-card-P9535.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"154\" height=\"300\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 154px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 154\/300;\" \/><\/em><em><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2689 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/ag.lk\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/004-Youth-Camp-1956-Sis-Reiniker-Front-centre.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"213\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/213;\" \/><\/em><em><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2690 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/ag.lk\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/p-14.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/202;\" \/><\/em><em><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-2687 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/ag.lk\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Ps-Vernon_-Sis-Deci_-Sis-Rosa-Reineker.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"312\" height=\"204\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 312px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 312\/204;\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Served in Sri Lanka 1937-1961, 1981-1985 Sis. Reineker, of German birth, is remembered for long years of sacrificial service to the people of Sri Lanka.\u00a0 It is she who built the church in Jaffna. She later returned to serve us once more in the 1980\u2019s, when she was instrumental in the development of the new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ag.lk\/web\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ag.lk\/web\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ag.lk\/web\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ag.lk\/web\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ag.lk\/web\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ag.lk\/web\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ag.lk\/web\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ag.lk\/web\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ag.lk\/web\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ag.lk\/web\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}