{"id":493,"date":"2011-04-09T15:56:56","date_gmt":"2011-04-09T07:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/chuck-shannon-talbot\/2011\/04\/09\/zach\/"},"modified":"2011-04-09T18:51:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-09T10:51:00","slug":"zach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/chuck-shannon-talbot\/2011\/04\/09\/zach\/","title":{"rendered":"Zach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During this past February, we were blessed by a young man named Zach.&#160; Zach is currently visiting the Philippines for several months through another organisation to expose himself to the many aspects of missionary work.&#160; Although we didn\u2019t personally know him, we were approached about the idea of allowing him to visit us for a few weeks to see what missions is about from the tribal missionary perspective.&#160; Of course we said yes!<\/p>\n<p>During his time with us, we tried to give Zach a wide variety of opportunities to experience life with us.&#160; He sat in on my language helper sessions, visited with the local people both in our village and the neighbouring one, and even got a taste of birthday food tribal style.&#160; Of course I had to give him opportunity to do a little work around the house as well.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/chuck-shannon-talbot\/files\/2011\/04\/100_0591.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px;margin: 0px 0px 5px;padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px;border-top-width: 0px;border-bottom-width: 0px;border-left-width: 0px;padding-top: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"100_0591\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/chuck-shannon-talbot\/files\/2011\/04\/100_0591_thumb.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"303\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the things that stood out to me though was the amount of time he spent simply playing with and talking to our kids.&#160; In some ways it was like Zach fit right in with us, whether he was playing peek a boo with Jenna, piggy-backing Sophia or building a fort with Kyle.&#160; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/chuck-shannon-talbot\/files\/2011\/04\/100_0515.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px;margin: 0px 0px 5px;padding-left: 0px;padding-right: 0px;border-top-width: 0px;border-bottom-width: 0px;border-left-width: 0px;padding-top: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"100_0515\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/chuck-shannon-talbot\/files\/2011\/04\/100_0515_thumb.jpg\" width=\"404\" height=\"306\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was a good reminder to me as to the importance of our kids in our ministry amongst the Ga\u2019dang people.&#160; 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