AUTHOR: JILL<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n This <\/span>is <\/span>mine and BJ’s<\/span> 10th N<\/span>ew Year to celebrate together<\/span>! <\/span>2015 has been one of the <\/span>most exciting, hardest,<\/span> scary, thrilling, faith-building, uncomfortable, and special <\/span>year<\/span> so far! And yet, we see <\/span>the Lord’s faithfulness at <\/span>every s<\/span>ingle step.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Here is the year at a glimpse:<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n -BJ was gone a ton so that he could mill lumber and build our bush home, leaving me to take care of our 1, 3 & 4 year old (hard times).<\/span><\/p>\n -BJ’s parents came to visit us (refreshing times).<\/span><\/p>\n -A group of men from Northwest <\/span>Community <\/span>church came to PNG to help finish building our house (<\/span>a thankful time).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n –<\/span>Because of our awesome supporters and churches<\/span>, our house and allocation costs were paid for (amazing time).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n -April, we got on a helicopter<\/span> with our team to make the move into the tribe (scary time).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n -May, w<\/span>e started learning the Wantakia<\/span> language (uncomfortable time).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n -September, our first break out of the tribe and field <\/span>conference<\/span> (exciting times).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n -Jill started homeschooling Olivia (nervous times).<\/span><\/p>\n -November, Jill’s parents came to visit (refreshing times).<\/span><\/p>\n -December, first Christmas in our first home, but away from family (joyful times and sad times).<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n There were <\/span>definitely things we missed this year, like,<\/span>seeing <\/span>nieces and nephews<\/span> born, college graduation, <\/span>birthdays<\/span>, etc. <\/span>But <\/span>when we think about the future church in Wantakia, it is all worth it!<\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n My theme verse for 2015 is, <\/span>“My cup over<\/span>flows with blessings<\/span>” (Psalm 23:5)<\/span>.<\/span> <\/span>Thank YOU for being a part of it–praying, supporting, sending <\/span>carepackages<\/span>, encouraging us–<\/span>MY<\/span> cup…overflows! <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Happy New Year<\/span>‘s!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Jill<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n PO Box 1079<\/span><\/p>\n Goroka, EHP 441<\/span><\/p>\n Papua New Guinea<\/span><\/p>\n <\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" AUTHOR: JILL This is mine and BJ’s 10th New Year to celebrate together! 2015 has been one of the most exciting, hardest, scary, thrilling, faith-building, uncomfortable, and special year so far! And yet, we see the Lord’s faithfulness at every single step. Here is the year at a glimpse: -BJ was gone a ton so that he could mill lumber and build […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":956,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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-1036","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\/bj-sanders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bj-sanders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bj-sanders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bj-sanders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/956"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bj-sanders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bj-sanders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bj-sanders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bj-sanders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bj-sanders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}