{"id":40,"date":"2012-01-29T22:49:26","date_gmt":"2012-01-30T03:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/craig-gilley\/?p=40"},"modified":"2012-01-29T22:49:26","modified_gmt":"2012-01-30T03:49:26","slug":"kaylas-graduation-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/craig-gilley\/2012\/01\/29\/kaylas-graduation-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Kayla’s Graduation Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"

1 Corinthians 9:22 says, \u201cI have become all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

When I looked up the word become it said: to change or to grow, any process of change.\u00a0 Learning and growing is a continual process.\u00a0 It is not one of those things we can just check off the list.\u00a0 \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Does this look familiar?\u00a0 Yep, that is me and my siblings at the training center in Mississippi when I was about 5 years old.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>And this picture was taken in the airport headed over to PNG for the first time when I was six.\u00a0 It was around this time that I started telling people, \u201cwhen I grew up I wan to be a missionary mom.\u201d<\/p>\n

Well, here I stand the mother of two beautiful children and \u201ca missionary with New Tribes Mission.\u201d\u00a0 There we go \u201ccheck check\u201d.\u00a0 Not even close!\u00a0 I can honestly say that if you asked anyone from our class we would all share with you that this has been an awesome learning and growing experience.\u00a0 But even more than that our eyes have been opened to our failures and our weaknesses and most of all our need for God.\u00a0 We have all been challenged with our need to continually become like Christ.\u00a0 Orientation our first semester I remember a speaker challenging us by saying,<\/p>\n

\u201cYou don\u2019t magically change when you fly overseas.\u00a0 Who you are today is who you will be over there.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

This was a huge wake up call for me.\u00a0 It opened my eyes to my need to apply myself and be a learner.\u00a0 In our communications skills class we learned from Howard Hendricks that, \u201cThe effective teacher always teaches from the out flow of a full life.\u00a0 If you stop growing today, you stop teaching tomorrow.\u201d<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0 This applies in all areas of life, parenthood, friends, family, church, in the US, overseas, or wherever the Lord may lead you.\u00a0 Even just a few days ago in class George Walker said, \u201cYou can save yourself a lot of headache be being a learner.\u00a0 Sure it takes time, effort and work but it is worth it.\u00a0 Others have gone before us.\u00a0 We don\u2019t have to reinvent the wheel.<\/strong><\/em>\u201d\u00a0 Howard Hendricks also said, \u201cThe Bible was written not to satisfy your curiosity but to help you conform to Christ\u2019s image.\u00a0 Not to make you a smarter sinner but to make you like the Savior.\u00a0 Not to fill your head with a collection of biblical facts but to transform your life.”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0 I know I speak for many or all of us when I say to the staff THANK YOU for being a part of this learning process.\u00a0 And I want to thank my classmates for also teaching me so much and being a part of the learning process in my life.\u00a0 I look forward to years of more learning.\u00a0 I mean we are only in E1 right?\u00a0 I want to leave you with one last verse from James 1:22,<\/p>\n

\u201cBut don\u2019t just listen to God\u2019s word.\u00a0 You must do what it says.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1 Corinthians 9:22 says, \u201cI have become all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.\u201d When I looked up the word become it said: to change or to grow, any process of change.\u00a0 Learning and growing is a continual process.\u00a0 It is not one of those things we can just […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":859,"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":[448,637],"class_list":{"0":"post-40","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"tag-ethnos360","8":"tag-new-tribes-mission","9":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/craig-gilley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/craig-gilley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/craig-gilley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/craig-gilley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/859"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/craig-gilley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/craig-gilley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/craig-gilley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/craig-gilley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/craig-gilley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}