{"id":335,"date":"2017-08-15T15:00:24","date_gmt":"2017-08-15T19:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/gordon-wohlgemut\/?p=335"},"modified":"2017-08-15T15:00:24","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T19:00:24","slug":"i-didnt-sing-their-song-for-good-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/gordon-wohlgemut\/2017\/08\/15\/i-didnt-sing-their-song-for-good-reason\/","title":{"rendered":"I Didn&#8217;t Sing Their Song for Good Reason"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Gordon last week:<\/p>\n<p>As you know, I was in a remote area of PNG last week and so I&#8217;ve been &#8220;suffering&#8221;&#8230;.aka &#8220;offline&#8221;&#8211;no internet, or cell service or even the radio most of the time. But I feel too embarrassed to complain, because several guys at the conference walked 2 days over rugged mountains to get there. I just had to fly in and cross the river, so I felt a bit spoiled. When they sang their first song though, I did NOT join in: It&#8217;s called &#8220;Mission work is a difficult task.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>These guys really lived what they sang!<\/p>\n<p>Some of them are carrying the gospel into dark areas and leaving their few earthly possessions behind just so they could help their own people in even more remote areas.<\/p>\n<p>Four different tribal areas were represented at this conference and the church leaders were a great encouragement to me.<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;<br \/>\nTwo days ago he wrote that he would be\u2026.&#8221;in another remote area. Church leaders from 6 or 7 tribal groups attending. Pray for flight, canoe trip, and especially open hearts and ears at conference. Tim Shontere, a fellow missionary, is joining me also, so you can pray for us as we teach that it will be clear and God-honoring.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Also pray for next week, that my final meetings and connections will sort out as I try to wrap up some important things before I leave the country on the 24th.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I, Janet, am doing fine here too. Still battling this headache. School started yesterday and for the first time in probably my whole life, I was ready for school! It\u2019s great to see the returning students and meet the new ones. I\u2019m excited about the new year.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks so much for your prayers! Janet &amp; Gordon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Gordon last week: As you know, I was in a remote area of PNG last week and so I&#8217;ve been &#8220;suffering&#8221;&#8230;.aka &#8220;offline&#8221;&#8211;no internet, or cell service or even the radio most of the time. But I feel too embarrassed to complain, because several guys at the conference walked 2 days over rugged mountains to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"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-335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/gordon-wohlgemut\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/gordon-wohlgemut\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/gordon-wohlgemut\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/gordon-wohlgemut\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/gordon-wohlgemut\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/gordon-wohlgemut\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/gordon-wohlgemut\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/gordon-wohlgemut\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/gordon-wohlgemut\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}