{"id":4484,"date":"2011-04-11T11:00:10","date_gmt":"2011-04-11T15:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/?p=4484"},"modified":"2011-04-11T11:00:10","modified_gmt":"2011-04-11T15:00:10","slug":"missionaries-aren%e2%80%99t-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/2011\/04\/11\/missionaries-aren%e2%80%99t-forever\/","title":{"rendered":"Missionaries aren\u2019t forever"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4485\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4485\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/files\/2011\/04\/budik.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4485\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/files\/2011\/04\/budik-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Kali, left, and Labo help check the translation of God's Word in Budik.\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/files\/2011\/04\/budik-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/files\/2011\/04\/budik-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/files\/2011\/04\/budik-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/files\/2011\/04\/budik-147x110.jpg 147w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/files\/2011\/04\/budik-250x188.jpg 250w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/files\/2011\/04\/budik.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4485\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kali, left, and Labo help check the translation of God&#39;s Word in Budik.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>God is encouraging the Budik believers as they take the reins of ministry to their own people.<\/p>\n<p>Ken Satorius recently made a trip to Senegal to check Bible portions and lessons he had revised or translated. \u201cSince our coworkers retired in January, there is no longer a missionary living among them,\u201d Ken wrote. \u201cAlthough the believers were a little afraid of how it was going to go \u2026 it is a good growing experience for them as they need to rely more completely on the Lord and not man.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kali is teaching the believers in two villages once a week. But in one of those villages, the believers wanted a second lesson each week, so Labo, Kanar and Bigir are teaching the second time.<\/p>\n<p>Kanar and Bigir are also looking into teaching the children separately from the adults. Pray for wisdom as they make arrangements for that, and adapt lessons for the younger group.<\/p>\n<p>Labo is also providing medical care for the Budiks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Budik believers respond by leading their own people, teaching and providing medical care.<\/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":[43],"class_list":{"0":"post-4484","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-ministry","7":"tag-gods-word","8":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4484","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=4484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}