{"id":1492,"date":"2013-11-21T17:00:44","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T21:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/?p=1492"},"modified":"2013-11-21T21:16:18","modified_gmt":"2013-11-22T01:16:18","slug":"a-simple-supper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/2013\/11\/21\/a-simple-supper\/","title":{"rendered":"A Simple Supper"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Rebekah has 30 years of experience in IT management. \u00a0She came to Sanford to spend a week helping NTM\u2019s IT team look into the future.<\/span><\/p>\n

And she was our guest at supper last night.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

She shared with Dave and me how much she had learned about missions since she has been here.<\/span><\/p>\n

First, she has learned that going on a missions trip is not just going somewhere to swing a hammer or even going to a different country.<\/strong>\u00a0 She\u2019s from a very missions-minded church, and has wanted to go on a missions trip for years, but she couldn\u2019t see herself on any of the typical trips. Recently, she learned about NTM\u2019s need in IT, and realized God had gifted her with insight and experience in that very area.\u00a0 So here she is, on her first missions trip, with hopes to do more in the months ahead.<\/span><\/p>\n

Second, she has learned that hosting a missionary for a meal doesn\u2019t have to be a big deal.<\/strong> Her church often has opportunity for the church members to host missionaries for meals, but she never signed up because she doesn\u2019t cook \u201cfancy\u201d meals.\u00a0 While she is here, she is having meals with members of Computer Services. Ours was the second home she\u2019d been in for an evening meal.\u00a0 And she\u2019s realized that a meal for a missionary doesn\u2019t have to be fancy.\u00a0 It can be the everyday food that she normally serves her family.\u00a0 So now she plans to start putting her name on those sign-up sheets for hosting missionaries.<\/span><\/p>\n

Creamy chicken chili and breadsticks \u2013 a simple supper.<\/strong> I didn\u2019t think as I was preparing it that it was anything special. Amazing that it helped change Rebekah\u2019s perspective on providing meals for missionaries.<\/span><\/p>\n

And I\u2019m reminded that everything we do \u2013 even something as basic as deciding what\u2019s for supper \u2013 can have long-lasting effects. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rebekah has 30 years of experience in IT management. \u00a0She came to Sanford to spend a week helping NTM\u2019s IT team look into the future. And she was our guest at supper last night.\u00a0 She shared with Dave and me how much she had learned about missions since she has been here. First, she has […]<\/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":[1728,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-lessons-from-life","category-ministry","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492","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=1492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}