{"id":277,"date":"2009-07-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-14T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-08-18T14:29:33","modified_gmt":"2009-08-18T18:29:33","slug":"a-character-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/2009\/07\/14\/a-character-study\/","title":{"rendered":"A character study"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"David<\/a><\/p>\n

You meet a lot of people \u2026 and every so often, you meet a character.<\/p>\n

I don\\’t mean that in a bad way. The folks I\\’d call characters are those who brighten a room. People you enjoy being around. But they\\’re also people with a different perspective. A unique way of looking at life. A special way of living life.<\/p>\n

That\\’s how David Lee struck me the first time I met him.<\/p>\n

I shared a little about David back in November 2006, about a year after I met him in a Bena Bena village in Papua New Guinea.<\/p>\n

And he came to mind recently because his ministry among the Bena Bena people continues to bear fruit. He and his co-workers, Rich and Dawn Foster, recently baptized another group of believers, the first four people from their village to place their faith in Christ.<\/p>\n

As a public testimony of faith and obedience, the baptism attracted the attention of one man who has yet to put his faith in Christ. “He has been showing a lot of interest lately, so we will be encouraging him to go and hear the teaching in our next outreach,” David wrote.<\/p>\n

So \u2026 what makes David a character?<\/p>\n

A gleam in his eyes \u2026 a ready smile \u2026 a hearty laugh \u2026 and the thing that impressed me the most: a willingness to undergo whatever personal hardships were necessary to reach the Bena Bena people. For David and his wife, Wendy, that meant moving to a remote Bena Bena village and living in their rustic huts, in order to press on in a struggle to learn the language that many thought they\\’d never master.<\/p>\n

They got the language. And now many Bena Benas have the eternal, abundant life that Jesus came and died to bring.<\/p>\n

I know some people think I\\’m a bit of a character. I just wish I had the strength of character that David has.<\/p>\n

What about you?<\/p>\n

Read the story from November 2006 >><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I want to introduce you to a character with a lot of character.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"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":[4],"tags":[38261,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-277","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-ministry","7":"tag-bena-bena","8":"tag-character","9":"tag-overseas","10":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277","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"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}