{"id":2353,"date":"2016-04-10T17:19:43","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T00:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/brian-pruett\/?p=2353"},"modified":"2016-04-22T17:23:29","modified_gmt":"2016-04-23T00:23:29","slug":"keeping-the-main-thing-the-main-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/brian-pruett\/2016\/04\/10\/keeping-the-main-thing-the-main-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeping the Main thing the Main Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Our vehicle has had nearly 30 years of extreme use. It\u2019s still going strong, but it\u2019s reached a point in its life where it simply consumes way too much of our time to be a tool anymore. We\u2019re thankful for it, but we also recognize that it\u2019s time to look for something that serves us and not the other way around.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I don\u2019t like writing updates like this. I like the updates where we get to tell you about the translation that\u2019s happening in one of our villages or how a certain people group is hearing the Gospel for the very first time! Those things are fun to write about because that\u2019s why we are here\u2026and these things ARE happening! God is so good and so faithful and new groups of people are hearing about His love for the very first time every day! Praise the Lord! Nothing can compare to the joy and excitement of knowing that someone who has never heard the Truth is hearing it now, for the first time, and is finally being given the opportunity to put their trust in our Savior.<\/p>\n

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What\u2019s not so fun to write about is the day-to-day stuff. We know, though, that you guys want to know how to pray for us so here it is: while Brian\u00a0and I are feeling excited and encouraged with all that\u2019s happening right now, our truck isn\u2019t feeling the same way. We have a Landcruiser that is almost 30 years old. It has made it through floods and typhoons and lots of harsh treks into the jungle when the airplane hasn\u2019t been available. It has served us well the past 7 1\/2 years but recently, it has begun to show its age. We love our truck and really don’t want to get rid of it but we are beginning to feel that our time is more important than keeping a truck we love.
\nSince we returned to the Philippines in January, Brian has spent much of his time trying to fix the truck so that it will become the reliable, family car it once was and it is just not happening. It has failed us several times now on big trips and is at the point where Brian has to be the one to drive it anywhere so that I don\u2019t get stranded somewhere alone. It\u2019s been a bit comical because our coworkers here are in the very same situation with their vehicle. Theirs is just as old and tired as ours and so we\u2019ve been taking both of our vehicles on big trips, just in case one of them gives out. And it\u2019s been good that we\u2019ve done that because we\u2019ve needed it several times!<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not sure that this is really managing our time or our finances well. We have a helicopter to import and reassemble, land to find and a hangar to build, a house to find and likely renovate plus everything else like homeschooling our kids and taking care of each other and our missionaries.
\nNeither one of us want a new car but when we think of all the things we could do here if we weren\u2019t spending our time working on vehicles, it seems so worth it! It\u2019s not a small thing to ask of the Lord but we know that the same God who brought us here and gives us everything we need is the same God who provided the millions of dollars to purchase airplanes and helicopters in order to further His kingdom. Why not ask Him for a new car? So that\u2019s what we are doing\u2026we are asking God to provide a new car for us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don\u2019t like writing updates like this. I like the updates where we get to tell you about the translation that\u2019s happening in one of our villages or how a certain people group is hearing the Gospel for the very first time! Those things are fun to write about because that\u2019s why we are here\u2026and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":372,"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":[3,4,143,126],"tags":[448,637],"class_list":["post-2353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-family","category-ministry","category-prayer-request","category-shop-talk","tag-ethnos360","tag-new-tribes-mission","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/brian-pruett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/brian-pruett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/brian-pruett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/brian-pruett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/372"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/brian-pruett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/brian-pruett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/brian-pruett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/brian-pruett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/brian-pruett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}