{"id":2975,"date":"2017-03-23T23:30:51","date_gmt":"2017-03-23T13:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bart-allen\/?p=2975"},"modified":"2017-03-23T23:30:51","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T13:30:51","slug":"back-to-work-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bart-allen\/2017\/03\/23\/back-to-work-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to Work Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each year in March all of the NTM missionaries in our region of Papua New Guinea gather for our annual conference.\u00a0 It&#8217;s always encouraging and fun, but tiring too!\u00a0 We&#8217;re going to need some time to recuperate once we get back to Amdu!!\u00a0 In addition to our annual conference, our to-do list for town is always long.\u00a0 Our packing is now finished and, weather permitting, will be returning to our home in the Amdu tribe in the morning.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2976\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2976\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2976 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bart-allen\/files\/2017\/03\/IMG_0890-600x401.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bart-allen\/files\/2017\/03\/IMG_0890-600x401.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bart-allen\/files\/2017\/03\/IMG_0890-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bart-allen\/files\/2017\/03\/IMG_0890-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2976\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">March 2017<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>We are excited to get back to work, finishing up the formal study of the Amdu language and culture.\u00a0 After our last language evaluation, our consultants think that most of the team should be able to be finished with language and culture learning by our next evaluation sometime in August.\u00a0 That&#8217;s only 5 months away so we have our work cut out for us!<\/p>\n<p>As a team we have some language and culture projects to finish up before we can turn our attention to literacy.\u00a0 We are aiming to begin teaching the first class of our Amdu friends to read and write in their language before the end of the year.\u00a0 Please pray for us as we will be pushing hard in the next few months!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each year in March all of the NTM missionaries in our region of Papua New Guinea gather for our annual conference.\u00a0 It&#8217;s always encouraging and fun, but tiring too!\u00a0 We&#8217;re going to need some time to recuperate once we get back to Amdu!!\u00a0 In addition to our annual conference, our to-do list for town is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":392,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[3,4],"tags":[448,637],"class_list":{"0":"post-2975","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-family","7":"category-ministry","8":"tag-ethnos360","9":"tag-new-tribes-mission","10":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bart-allen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bart-allen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bart-allen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bart-allen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/392"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bart-allen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bart-allen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bart-allen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bart-allen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bart-allen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}