{"id":16350,"date":"2026-01-13T20:10:32","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T20:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/?p=16350"},"modified":"2026-01-13T20:10:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T20:10:32","slug":"che-ahn-in-jerusalem-running-for-california-governor-with-pastors-heart-strong-commitment-to-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/?p=16350","title":{"rendered":"Che Ahn in Jerusalem: Running for California Governor with Pastor&#8217;s Heart, Strong Commitment to Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>JERUSALEM, Israel\u00a0\u2013 Last year, Pasadena Pastor Che Ahn, who founded Harvest Rock Church, one of the largest congregations\u00a0in Southern California, felt the Lord was prompting him to run for governor in America&#8217;s most populous state.<\/p>\n<p>He was\u00a0reluctant and told the Lord he didn&#8217;t want to do it, but out of obedience to His leading, he filed the papers to run.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Just before his 70th birthday this month, the Korean-born pastor\u00a0joined us in\u00a0<em>CBN News&#8217; <\/em>Jerusalem studio to talk not only about his quest in the political arena, but also his strong stand for Israel and against the rampant global antisemitism. As you can tell from our interview, he still retains his pastor&#8217;s heart, and he told us that only a God-ordained spiritual awakening can transform California and the world.<\/p>\n<p>Click on the video above to watch our interview.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>***Please sign up for\u00a0<\/em>CBN Newsletters<em>\u00a0and download the\u00a0<\/em>CBN News app<em>\u00a0to receive the latest news from a distinctly Christian perspective.***<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JERUSALEM, Israel\u00a0\u2013 Last year, Pasadena Pastor Che Ahn, who founded Harvest Rock Church, one of the largest congregations\u00a0in Southern California, felt the Lord was prompting him to run for governor in America&#8217;s most populous state. He was\u00a0reluctant and told the Lord he didn&#8217;t want to do it, but out of obedience to His leading, he<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16351,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[5079,5080,5078,1452,1256,137,168,654,716,2974,1344],"class_list":["post-16350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jesus","tag-ahn","tag-california","tag-che","tag-commitment","tag-governor","tag-heart","tag-israel","tag-jerusalem","tag-pastors","tag-running","tag-strong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}