{"id":681,"date":"2014-05-25T14:46:58","date_gmt":"2014-05-25T20:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bj-sanders\/?p=681"},"modified":"2014-05-25T14:46:58","modified_gmt":"2014-05-25T20:46:58","slug":"hold-on-tight-here-we-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bj-sanders\/2014\/05\/25\/hold-on-tight-here-we-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Hold on tight&#8230;here we go!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In one week, we are about to get on a plane to go to destination #1 of 3 (in a month!)\u00a0 We are moving all of our \u201cstuff\u201d to G oroka and getting settled for a week.<\/p>\n<p>#2, After the week, we will be flying into a tribe called <a href=\"http:\/\/wusuraambya.wordpress.com\/church\/\">Wusuraambya (click here to check out where we\u2019ll be for a month.<\/a>)\u00a0 We will be doing the last part of our training and getting acclimated to the bush.\u00a0 We will wrap up our pidgin language learning, and be involved in a church in the bush.\u00a0 The missionaries are taking us in and will let us do life with them!\u00a0 We are super excited.\u00a0 The missionaries are working hard to finish up the translation of the Bible, so it will be great to be able to experience that.\u00a0 It will be the first time we are actually living in the \u201cbush\u201d!\u00a0 Most of you know, we\u2019ve been living in town right now, where we can go to a grocery store, or go to a resort for our anniversary.\u00a0 Won\u2019t be the case here!\u00a0 I had to plan meals and order food for ONE WHOLE MONTH!\u00a0 If we run out, we will be eating sweet potatoes!\u00a0 J\u00a0 I am not sure how internet will be while we are there, but I will journal and write blogs later!\u00a0 You wont want to miss those! Oh, and did I mention, this location is right next to the tribe we are pursuing?!\u00a0 Very excited about this!!<\/p>\n<p>And #3: When we finish bush orientation, we will fly back to G oroka to settle in our new home until we allocate to our very own tribe.\u00a0 This location is where all of the support missionaries are in Papua New Guinea.\u00a0 There is a school, a doctor\u2019s clinic, and every type of support you can think of!\u00a0 We are excited to get to know the people who will be reaching the tribe with the Gospel from the national center.\u00a0 We will also spend this time surveying a tribe that we are pursuing\u2026and then making all the plans to allocate into the tribe.<\/p>\n<p>Just wanted to update you on our upcoming moves.\u00a0 You would think that moving gets easy when you\u2019re a missionary, but it doesn\u2019t really.\u00a0 We will have to say goodbye to a lot of great people here.\u00a0 We will say goodbye to the ocean.\u00a0 Our kids will say goodbye to their friends and their room.\u00a0 It\u2019s not easy!\u00a0 But we follow a God who sustains us and gives us strength to walk with Him.<\/p>\n<p>-Em tasol (pidgin for: that\u2019s all!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In one week, we are about to get on a plane to go to destination #1 of 3 (in a month!)\u00a0 We are moving all of our \u201cstuff\u201d to G oroka and getting settled for a week. #2, After the week, we will be flying into a tribe called Wusuraambya (click here to check out [&hellip;]<\/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":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-681","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-family","7":"category-ministry","8":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bj-sanders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681","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=681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bj-sanders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bj-sanders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bj-sanders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bj-sanders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}