We should have a tremendous respect for those early missionaries, those who pioneered God’s work among the jungle peoples. \u00a0In many cases they were the first to blaze the trail. \u00a0No one had gone before them, no one could help them with the huge challenges they faced. \u00a0They either sank or swam on their own! \u00a0They were totally committed to the task they had undertaken. \u00a0Such was the reputation of the ‘green hell’ of South America my Father never expected \u00a0to come out alive once he and his family had entered that infamous place. \u00a0Though the missionaries had received some training in language learning and other so called essentials the experience of living and ministering in the jungle among jungle peoples was an experience that literally made or broke the individual missionary.<\/p>\n
In time things got a little easier for the singles and families who came to the jungle. \u00a0There would be someone to meet them as they came into the country and someone to meet them at the last little town before they headed off to the jungle. \u00a0It was a huge encouragement to be met by a smiling face, a person who had been there and done that who could help with the required paper work. \u00a0In time too, better and more efficient methods were introduced to expedite the church planting effort.<\/p>\n
It was in the Spiritual oversight of the missionaries I believe things could have been much better. \u00a0Those who came for the purpose of providing that oversight in the church planting effort were faithful in admonishing us to keep going, to be dedicated because of the absolute importance of seeing the work through to the end. \u00a0They were \u00a0right to do so. Truth is most of those missionaries were already very dedicated. \u00a0What the struggling missionaries needed was affirmation, a clearer understanding of being loved and gently, tenderly cared for by God. \u00a0So many of us did not \u00a0grasp the fact that a big part of our many struggles came about \u00a0because we didn’t know how to live by Christ Himself through understanding identification truths. \u00a0It was there all the time waiting for us to take it but we either didn’t know about it or we didn’t understand it properly. Yes of course God honored His Word and multitudes of those precious jungle dwellers came to Christ and many many churches were planted. \u00a0To be fair to our leadership and to ourselves, even a much clearer understanding by all of us of what God means when He declares us to be “IN CHRIST’ would not have eliminated all our struggles and solved all our problems. \u00a0I’m absolutely certain however that we all could have been blessed and positively impacted personally and as a fellowship and community through a greater emphasis and focus on the Person of the Lord Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We should have a tremendous respect for those early missionaries, those who pioneered God’s work among the jungle peoples. \u00a0In many cases they were the first to blaze the trail. \u00a0No one had gone before them, no one could help them with the huge challenges they faced. \u00a0They either sank or swam on their own! […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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-127","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\/danny-shaylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/danny-shaylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/danny-shaylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/danny-shaylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/danny-shaylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/danny-shaylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/danny-shaylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/danny-shaylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/danny-shaylor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}