{"id":270,"date":"2009-05-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-14T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-05-07T12:40:37","modified_gmt":"2009-05-07T16:40:37","slug":"they-left-their-co-worker-behind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/2009\/05\/14\/they-left-their-co-worker-behind\/","title":{"rendered":"They left their Co-worker behind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartImportPhoto--><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/files\/2009\/05\/newsAP(9434)_img.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-104\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;margin-bottom: 5px\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/files\/2009\/05\/newsAP(9434)_img.jpg\" alt=\"Literacy teacher Donald is now attending Bible school.\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><!--EndImportPhoto--><\/p>\n<p>Don&rsquo;t you hate to leave anything half-done?<\/p>\n<p>I&rsquo;m sure that&rsquo;s how Paul and Marina Briggs felt when unrest forced them from their ministry among the Loron people in Ivory Coast.<\/p>\n<p>Today, Paul and Marina are working among the Lorons in neighboring  Burkina Faso, and visiting the Lorons in Ivory Coast. But they&rsquo;re just helping the Loron believers.<\/p>\n<p>Joel, Daniel and several other Loron Bible teachers are teaching and encouraging believers in eight villages there. Joel is also teaching evangelistic Bible lessons to various groups in the area. <\/p>\n<p>Loron literacy teachers are helping their own people learn to read and write their own language. <\/p>\n<p>Paul and Marina teamed up with Lorons in one village to install a pump to provide water to the entire community.<\/p>\n<p>And Donald, a young Loron believer, is going to attend a Bible school run by Africans.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it just seemed like they were leaving things half-done. It seems their Co-worker had things in hand, like He always does.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for being co-laborers with Christ in our ministry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul and Marina Briggs may have felt like they were leaving their work among the Loron people in Ivory Coast unfinished.<\/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-270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}