{"id":745,"date":"2013-01-24T09:32:49","date_gmt":"2013-01-24T13:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-ketcham\/?p=745"},"modified":"2013-01-24T09:32:49","modified_gmt":"2013-01-24T13:32:49","slug":"missionaries-are-normal-people-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/angela-ketcham\/2013\/01\/24\/missionaries-are-normal-people-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Missionaries are NORMAL people too."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Just a normal morning.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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So I’ve had a few people say (or write in most cases), “And that’s why I could never be a missionary!” or “I could never do that!” or “Wow.\u00a0 I can’t believe you do that!” or…… Okay, you get the idea.\u00a0\u00a0 And here’s the deal, I\u00a0have said those same things about tribal missionaries.\u00a0 “I could never live in a tribe.”\u00a0 “I would never be able to make it without having another woman to talk to in my first language.”\u00a0 “I would never be able to handle all the medical & dental stuff you (speaking to said tribal missionary) do!”\u00a0 And so on.<\/div>\n
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But here’s the thing…missionaries, tribal or otherwise, are just NORMAL people too (we get homesick, scared, we don’t always all get along, our children fight, we like watching movies & listening to music, we are still growing in our walk with the Lord, etc.).\u00a0 I’m often caught off guard when someone says\/writes me that.\u00a0 I usually don’t know what to say…’Yes you could!’ just doesn’t seem to fit.\u00a0 And ‘ You are so right!’ isn’t it either.\u00a0 But I’ve been thinking\u00a0about this a little and here is what I’ve come up with.\u00a0 If God calls us\u00a0to do something\/go someplace, He will give us all we need to be able to do\/go.\u00a0 Or He’ll be there to teach us something if we don’t.\u00a0\u00a0<\/div>\n
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It’s true, there are just some things we are not\u00a0going to be able to do on our own.\u00a0 But when\u00a0God gives us His strength to do it,\u00a0ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE!<\/div>\n
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And\u00a0just to be real…I’m so glad He doesn’t\u00a0call all of us to do the same thing…because seriously, I could NEVER\u00a0eat some of the things our tribal missionary friends have had to eat (grubs, monkey, snake, fruit stuff with everyones-from the tribe-\u00a0spit in it)! \ud83d\ude42\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 So I’ve had a few people say (or write in most cases), “And that’s why I could never be a missionary!” or “I could never do that!” or “Wow.\u00a0 I can’t believe you do that!” or…… Okay, you get the idea.\u00a0\u00a0 And here’s the deal, I\u00a0have said those same things about tribal missionaries.\u00a0 “I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":464,"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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-745","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/angela-ketcham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/angela-ketcham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/angela-ketcham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/angela-ketcham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/464"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/angela-ketcham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/angela-ketcham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/angela-ketcham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/angela-ketcham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/angela-ketcham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}