{"id":1390,"date":"2013-05-13T20:36:29","date_gmt":"2013-05-14T00:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/?p=1390"},"modified":"2013-05-14T06:55:18","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T10:55:18","slug":"7th-grade-skill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/2013\/05\/13\/7th-grade-skill\/","title":{"rendered":"7th grade skill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/files\/2013\/05\/For-blog2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1404\" title=\"Elevator pads\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/files\/2013\/05\/For-blog2-259x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"259\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>In 7th grade, I took an after-school class on sewing basics.\u00a0 I have sewn ever since &#8211; to clothe my family, to give gifts, to beautify the household, to bless the high school band.\u00a0 I haven&#8217;t done as much\u00a0in the past few years, but someone at NTM knew that I sewed.\u00a0 And when a need arose at\u00a0the Tower,\u00a0they\u00a0asked for my help.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Tower is the building where\u00a0the NTM offices will be located.\u00a0 Construction and rennovation are going on now, with moves planned as floors are finished.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So where does my sewing\u00a0come in?\u00a0 In the elevator!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The elevator\u00a0is basically the only way to get construction supplies up to the higher floors.\u00a0\u00a0Later when the move actually takes place, office furniture will be carried by the elevator.\u00a0 So the nice, classy elevator walls need protection.\u00a0\u00a0The construction coordinator bought furniture pads to hang as\u00a0wall\u00a0protection. The three huge pads needed to be\u00a0sewn together. And\u00a0an opening had to be cut and bound\u00a0for the elevator controls.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I spent most of this past Saturday on this sewing project.\u00a0 Never would have imagined that a skill I learned back in 7th grade would be something I&#8217;d use for ministry\u00a0in 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 7th grade, I took an after-school class on sewing basics.\u00a0 I have sewn ever since &#8211; to clothe my family, to give gifts, to beautify the household, to bless the high school band.\u00a0 I haven&#8217;t done as much\u00a0in the past few years, but someone at NTM knew that I sewed.\u00a0 And when a need [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"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":[1708],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-ruths-ministry","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}