{"id":122,"date":"2015-07-23T18:47:20","date_gmt":"2015-07-23T22:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dwight-brown\/?p=122"},"modified":"2015-07-23T18:47:20","modified_gmt":"2015-07-23T22:47:20","slug":"dec-and-jan-2015-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dwight-brown\/2015\/07\/23\/dec-and-jan-2015-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Dec and Jan 2015 update"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good grief! This update is sure getting out late!\u00a0 A lot has happened since we last wrote.\u00a0 We finally received the \u201cgo ahead\u201d from the airport to sell the hangar!\u00a0 This week Dwight is in the process of getting that going.\u00a0 Dwight\u2019s ID card will be running out of date by the 20th, so the lawyer said we need to get the contract done before then, otherwise it will cause a lot more trouble and time.\u00a0 Also we need to draw up the contract for the selling of our vehicle before then! Yes, we have a buyer for our car!\u00a0 <\/strong>I just feel that your prayers are carrying us through! Thank you!<\/p>\n

On Dec 23th, we took off with two other families from church (the Pastor and a deacon) to attend the wedding of one of the single guys from the church leadership team. \u00a0I could make this letter really long with all that happened, but I will try to just give you a few highlights in the sentences below: (32\u00a0hours of travel in 2 days by road to attend the wedding)<\/p>\n

– A very hot day, but a very happy bride and groom! Pastor Gustavo preached a short but good sermon and the pastor from the bride\u2019s church did the ceremony.\u00a0 A trip an hour north to take our friends to visit the Ayore ethnic group and meet some precious brothers and sisters in Christ; some of whom were wounded when they contacted their own relatives in the jungle in 1986. (5 Ayore believers were\u00a0died at the same time)<\/p>\n

– A bus trip to Asuncion and then on to see one of the seven wonders of the world…Foz de Iguazu. Our friends were overwhelmed with the beauty and awesome power of God manifested in that place!\u00a0 The Pastor\u2019s back pack got stolen off the bus from the overhead compartment on our return.\u00a0 Too bad, for the thief who was going to find mostly dirty clothes.\u00a0 We thank the Lord no money or documents or valuable items were in the back pack….except for the makeup kit…which some of us ladies would consider very valuable!<\/p>\n

– On our way back to Bolivia, we left\u00a0the town in the center of the chaco\u00a0and got to some friend\u2019s ranch out in the middle of the jungle.\u00a0 Our Bolivian friends experienced for the first time…milking a cow, riding a horse, and many other exciting things…like learning about sheep and pigs. Oh, I forgot to mention this family has 12 children,and talk about being a blessing! Wow!\u00a0 The following day we took off for Bolivia, going through\u00a0location where the Manjuis live.\u00a0 They are an ethnic group that the Mission has worked with for years and now do not have any missionaries living on sight, but still work with them on an itinerate basis.\u00a0 The Manjuis have a functioning church, and they have sent out their first missionary family!\u00a0 How cool is that?!\u00a0 Several of them remembered Dwight and I from when Dwight would fly in and out of the there!\u00a0 We made it back safe and sound last Sunday evening.<\/p>\n

We came home to a houseful of guests, as the couple that just got married had come back to Bolivia and had a special reception in our church here for all those who couldn\u2019t be at the wedding in Paraguay. \u00a0So we had offered our house for guests of the bride (her parents and a few friends). \u00a0They waited for us to arrive and then left early the following morning.\u00a0 We had a good visit with them even though we only had a couple of hours.\u00a0 We both are terribly tired, but blessed!\u00a0 It was so much fun to see how our friends enjoyed the simple things along the trip and to see new things that were so exciting for them.\u00a0 The Pastor\u2019s first Sunday morning preaching was about the Good Shepherd.\u00a0 After seeing first hand, the way the sheep were cared for, how each sheep had a name, and how each sheep knew who their shepherd was, it was an inspiration!<\/p>\n

Dwight had to make a quick trip up to La Paz on Tuesday, but was able to come back early afternoon.\u00a0 Please pray that his paperwork in La Paz will get finished quickly!\u00a0 Can you continue to pray that we won\u2019t have to paint our apt before leaving?\u00a0 That sounds like a \u201clittle\u201d thing to pray about. \u00a0But it would be very difficult to do that while we are trying to wind things up and still live here and have that strong smell of paint. We have been praying that God would \u201cmake things happen\u201d as it seems like everything is going so slowly. (You can\u2019t get much done in any offices right before Christmas until several days after the 1st of Jan.) But now things are stepping up and we are seeing God\u2019s hand in moving things for us.\u00a0 Can you keep praying that we will have the strength to finish well here?<\/p>\n

Thank you so much! We really appreciate each one of you!<\/p>\n

Your missionaries,<\/p>\n

Dwight and Diana Brown<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Good grief! This update is sure getting out late!\u00a0 A lot has happened since we last wrote.\u00a0 We finally received the \u201cgo ahead\u201d from the airport to sell the hangar!\u00a0 This week Dwight is in the process of getting that going.\u00a0 Dwight\u2019s ID card will be running out of date by the 20th, so the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dwight-brown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dwight-brown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dwight-brown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dwight-brown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dwight-brown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dwight-brown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dwight-brown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dwight-brown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dwight-brown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}