{"id":17,"date":"2007-12-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-18T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-12-18T22:22:42","modified_gmt":"2007-12-19T03:22:42","slug":"france-it-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/heather-badiane\/2007\/12\/18\/france-it-is\/","title":{"rendered":"France it is!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartImportPhoto--><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/heather_gordy\/files\/2007\/12\/2329_29299.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-104\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;margin-bottom: 5px\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/heather_gordy\/files\/2007\/12\/2329_29299.jpg\" alt=\"A fancy way of saying, <br \/>&quot;French school&quot;&#8221; width=&#8221;300&#8243; \/><\/a><!--EndImportPhoto--><\/p>\n<p>When leadership in Senegal told me that I would need to go to France or Quebec to study French, I began praying about where to go. Through some months of prayer I felt the Lord would have me go to a small missionary language school in Albertville, France.&nbsp; Recently, I have gone through a long process of gathering different documents and having them translated into French, then going for an interview to the French consulate in Atlanta to request a visa.&nbsp; Well, after a few months of this and a few more of waiting, I finally have my visa in hand!&nbsp; Praise the Lord!&nbsp; I have learned a little French online already and tried to learn a bit about French culture so that I will be prepared.&nbsp; My heart longs to go straight to Africa but, I am willing to take this &quot;side trip&quot; if that is what I need to do.&nbsp; What an adventure!&nbsp; Please pray for me&#8211; that my brain would successfully process all the information it will get in French language and culture immersion.&nbsp; Pray that I will be faithful with my time.&nbsp; Pray that I will get to know and minister to French people.&nbsp; Pray that I am bold to practice all I can so that I can learn as much as possible.&nbsp; I plan to leave January 2, 2008 and return home for a short visit before heading to Senegal.&nbsp; This time of National language study will be my first year of full-time service with New Tribes Mission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French immersion, here I come!  <\/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":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/heather-badiane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/heather-badiane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/heather-badiane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/heather-badiane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/heather-badiane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/heather-badiane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/heather-badiane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/heather-badiane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}