{"id":16,"date":"2009-05-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-12T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-05-12T20:07:32","modified_gmt":"2009-05-13T00:07:32","slug":"the-banks-of-the-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/angela-ketcham\/2009\/05\/12\/the-banks-of-the-amazon\/","title":{"rendered":"The Banks of the Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartImportPhoto--><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-ketcham\/files\/2009\/05\/2816_56604.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-104\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;margin-bottom: 5px\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-ketcham\/files\/2009\/05\/2816_56604.jpg\" alt=\"PQQ\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><!--EndImportPhoto--><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span class=\"boldText-red\">June 15, 2009&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span class=\"boldText-red\"><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Not long till we head to Brazil!&nbsp; Time is just flying by&#8230;in some ways it&#8217;s hard to believe that it&#8217;s time for us to be leaving.&nbsp; In other ways, it seems like we&#8217;ve been moving toward this goal for quite a while.<\/p>\n<p>We are soooo excited to be heading to Brazil to begin our ministry.&nbsp; Our first year will be spent learning Portuguese down in southern Brazil, but we know it will go by fast.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We can&#8217;t wait to be at PQQ.&nbsp; However, knowing our host cultures language will be a great benefit.&nbsp; Especially since we are planning on being involved in the Outreach program&#8230;.so it&#8217;s off to Via (southern Brazil) and then back to PQQ after that.<\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s what is going on with us right now&#8230;.just preparing to head to the <em>banks of the Amazon<\/em>.&nbsp; Not many people get to say that.&nbsp; For this reason we feel privileged &amp; blessed.<\/p>\n<p>Now don&#8217;t get us wrong, there is nothing special about us.&nbsp; Often people tell us that they &#8216;could never be a missionary.&#8217;&nbsp; Well, we can&#8217;t either.&nbsp; We are just normal people, with normal problems, with normal fears&#8230;isn&#8217;t it amazing that God is willing to use us (and we mean you too&#8230;wherever you are, doing whatever you do)?&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><!--StartImportThumbnail--><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-ketcham\/files\/2009\/05\/2816_42468.jpg\" rel=\"thumbnail\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-104\" style=\"float:left; margin-right:5px; border: 0.5pt solid #BCC4C8;\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-ketcham\/files\/2009\/05\/2816_42468.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><!--EndImportThumbnail--><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a quote to end with&#8230;&quot;<span class=\"redText\"><span class=\"boldText-red\"><span class=\"redText\">God uses the ordinary to do the extraordinary<\/span>.<\/span><\/span>&quot;&nbsp; Not sure who said it or where it&#8217;s from, but we know it&#8217;s <span class=\"redText\"><em><strong>true<\/strong><\/em>.&nbsp; <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 15, 2009&#8230; Not long till we head to Brazil!&nbsp; Time is just flying by&#8230;in some ways it&#8217;s hard to believe that it&#8217;s time for us to be leaving.&nbsp; In other ways, it seems like we&#8217;ve been moving toward this goal for quite a while. 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