{"id":292,"date":"2011-04-03T00:11:41","date_gmt":"2011-04-02T14:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/aaron-luse\/?p=292"},"modified":"2011-04-04T07:08:29","modified_gmt":"2011-04-03T21:08:29","slug":"door-ajar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/aaron-luse\/2011\/04\/03\/door-ajar\/","title":{"rendered":"Door Ajar"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"IMG_2117\"The boys taking a peek into the office.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Remember that riddle from elementary school: When is a door not a door?\u00a0 When it is ajar!\u00a0 That riddle comes flooding back to my memory every time I see the little red icon of car with its\u2019 doors open illuminated on the dash board.\u00a0 The built-in vehicle warning light also serve its original purpose in letting me know that one of the car doors is partly open.<\/p>\n

This last week the \u201cdoor ajar\u201d light came on in my office.\u00a0 Not literally of course, but I received word from a Patpatar man that a \u201cdoor\u201d had been slightly opened in the village where we have had so many \u201cdoors\u201d shut.\u00a0 After we had to tear down our half built literacy building last year we have been praying for a place outside the missionaries house to have a place to meet.\u00a0 Door ajar!\u00a0 The newly chosen leaders in the village have decided to build a community house on a small strip of land in the middle of the village and they want the literacy class to take place there.<\/p>\n

There was even more good news that the messenger began to relay to me while the boys outside the office, as usual, peered into the office window to watch everything going on.\u00a0 Those same leaders have also been discussing why after instating several more laws for those in the village only three months ago, that the problems in the community have become worse instead of better.\u00a0 They talked over several ideas that might bring to light the problem.\u00a0 Then one of them who had originally sat in on some of the Bible teaching nearly two years ago, had an idea.\u00a0 Door ajar!\u00a0 Why not have the lessons from the Bible taught to them and the community since many of them had not attended before.\u00a0 The man who had attended some went on to say that, \u201cWhen those missionaries taught they stood only on God\u2019s talk and I think that is what we need.\u201d<\/p>\n

Doors that have been closed are now ajar.\u00a0 We have seen in the past, some of them opened a small amount only to be slammed closed again.\u00a0 We are praying that they will this time continue to open more. On Monday (Sunday late in the States) these leaders will be meeting with the community to discuss the ideas.\u00a0 Pray that God will use it to open the doors even wider and that those who would oppose it, be silenced.<\/p>\n

Aaron<\/p>\n

Fact \u2013 After making two runs in our pickup truck last week for the Patpatar people to the aid post an hour away, our truck stopped working well.\u00a0 With no warning lights on the dash and my limited mechanic skills I didn\u2019t know what to do.\u00a0 Thankfully after contacting a missionary mechanic and simply changing the fuel and air filters everything is working well again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The boys taking a peek into the office. Remember that riddle from elementary school: When is a door not a door?\u00a0 When it is ajar!\u00a0 That riddle comes flooding back to my memory every time I see the little red icon of car with its\u2019 doors open illuminated on the dash board.\u00a0 The built-in vehicle […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":204,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2484,4,3430,3431],"tags":[2692,652],"class_list":{"0":"post-292","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-2484","7":"category-ministry","8":"category-news-article","9":"category-prayer-request","10":"tag-bible-lessons","11":"tag-literacy","12":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/aaron-luse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/aaron-luse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/aaron-luse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/aaron-luse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/204"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/aaron-luse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/aaron-luse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/aaron-luse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/aaron-luse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/aaron-luse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}