{"id":279,"date":"2013-04-10T19:00:32","date_gmt":"2013-04-10T23:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dennis-farthing\/?p=279"},"modified":"2013-05-02T21:49:17","modified_gmt":"2013-05-03T01:49:17","slug":"the-nine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dennis-farthing\/2013\/04\/10\/the-nine\/","title":{"rendered":"The Nine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-279 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dennis-farthing\/2013\/04\/10\/the-nine\/lukas-reading\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dennis-farthing\/files\/2013\/04\/Lukas-reading-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-281\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-281'>\n\t\t\t\tLukas reading\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dennis-farthing\/2013\/04\/10\/the-nine\/niklas\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dennis-farthing\/files\/2013\/04\/Niklas-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-282\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-282'>\n\t\t\t\tNiklas in Tae kwon do\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dennis-farthing\/2013\/04\/10\/the-nine\/anna-pushes-niklas\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dennis-farthing\/files\/2013\/04\/Anna-pushes-Niklas-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-283\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-283'>\n\t\t\t\tAnna pushes Niklas\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dennis-farthing\/2013\/04\/10\/the-nine\/language-helpering-copy\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dennis-farthing\/files\/2013\/04\/Language-Helpering-copy-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>The Nine<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When we mention the number nine, what do you think of?\u00a0 A baseball team?\u00a0 The fellowship of the Ring?\u00a0 The lepers who didn\u2019t thank Jesus?\u00a0 Here at the Missionary Training Center, the nine, is our most recent incoming class.\u00a0 It is the smallest that we have ever had.\u00a0 God can do great things with small amounts of people.\u00a0 Judges 7 tells us how God winnowed an army and used only 300 men to defeat a much larger Midianite force.\u00a0 God used a man, his wife, two children and their spouses to save the human race from extinction.\u00a0 One willing teenager was used by God to kill the Philistine champion and rout their army.\u00a0 Yes, God specializes in using the few, the weak and the unexpected to accomplish his goals, but He also tells us to pray for laborers to be sent out into the harvest.\u00a0 The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few.\u00a0 Evidently, in this one important task, God is looking for many harvesters, not just a few.\u00a0 Let\u2019s be praying and willing to go.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And He said to them, The harvest indeed is abundant, but the farmhands are few.<\/p>\n<p>Pray therefore the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest.<\/p>\n<p>Luke 10:2<\/p>\n<p>From the Ling Department<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dennis is glad to have a new coworker in the linguistics department.\u00a0 Dan and his wife worked for many years in a tribe in Brazil and felt that it was time for them to come back to the States. He is sitting in Dennis\u2019 linguistics class this semester and will be going to Oklahoma with him in August.\u00a0 As of now we are anticipating that Dennis will go to Oklahoma while Monika and the kids stay in Missouri so that the boys won\u2019t miss school.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dennis &amp; Monika with Lukas, Niklas and Anna<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nine &nbsp; When we mention the number nine, what do you think of?\u00a0 A baseball team?\u00a0 The fellowship of the Ring?\u00a0 The lepers who didn\u2019t thank Jesus?\u00a0 Here at the Missionary Training Center, the nine, is our most recent incoming class.\u00a0 It is the smallest that we have ever had.\u00a0 God can do great [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[3,4,3823],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-family","category-ministry","category-news-article","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dennis-farthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dennis-farthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dennis-farthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dennis-farthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dennis-farthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dennis-farthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dennis-farthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dennis-farthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dennis-farthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}