{"id":7,"date":"2007-02-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-01T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-08-15T23:00:07","modified_gmt":"2009-08-16T03:00:07","slug":"the-big-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-knapp\/2007\/02\/01\/the-big-move\/","title":{"rendered":"THE BIG MOVE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <strong>Since 2001 we have used Colorado as our base for ministry&nbsp; functioning as Regional Reprsentatives in the Rocky Mountain region for NTM.&nbsp; A couple of years ago we expanded our ministry to a general PARTNERSHIP DEVELOPMENT definition.&nbsp; This opened up more areas of ministry that were not necessarily regional.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; For the last 7 years Judith has been going to Arizona to care for her mother with dementia during January thru March.&nbsp; David would often come to stay some and do some ministry contacts while there.&nbsp; However, these were temporary as our main ministry was back in Colorado.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; This last spring Judith&#8217;s mother had a stroke leaving her needing 24 hr care.&nbsp;She no longer can come to her Arizona home from Canada.&nbsp; Judith&#8217;s sister, Marsha, has full-time care responsibility for Mom, plus running a ranch there in Canada.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Derrick and Meggin moved to Canada for 6 months this last year to help Marsha out with things.&nbsp; In the fall they accepted a position on the pastoral staff at a church in Indiana.&nbsp; This created a need for help for Marsha which we felt strongly that we should address personally.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Considering ALL options, the Lord brought to mind the idea of us living in Mom&#8217;s place in AZ and flying to Alberta from there.&nbsp;&nbsp; Research revealed that flights form Pheonix to Calgary are&nbsp; more than 1\/2 the cost of flying from Denver.&nbsp; NTM leaders felt our ministry definition would be served very well in Arizona as in Colorado and were in favor of our move.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; SO, January 5 we moved to Arizona after liguidating our rented home in Colorado.&nbsp; It was not an easy move but a right one.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The only main change to our ministry is which airport we fly out of.&nbsp; Of course, we now have the large duty of getting acquainted with the christian leaders and churches&nbsp; in the greater Phenix area.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Knapps move to Arizona so Judith can help with her mother&#8217;s care in Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"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":[],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-knapp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-knapp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-knapp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-knapp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-knapp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-knapp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-knapp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-knapp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}