{"id":4526,"date":"2011-06-16T10:36:41","date_gmt":"2011-06-16T14:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/?p=4526"},"modified":"2011-06-16T10:40:37","modified_gmt":"2011-06-16T14:40:37","slug":"an-important-step-for-our-ministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/2011\/06\/16\/an-important-step-for-our-ministry\/","title":{"rendered":"An important step for our ministry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Julie and I thank you and God for helping us take the first step in the right direction.<\/p>\n<p>Our support has increased, and we now can keep from running a deficit by holding ministry expenses and personal expenses to a minimum. This means we\u2019re no longer at risk of having to leave our ministry. That\u2019s huge! I don\u2019t think we can thank you enough.<\/p>\n<p>It is, however, the first step. We can\u2019t carry out our ministry on our current support. Increased travel, photo and video mean we should be spending 20 times what we spent eight years ago. Due to finances, we\u2019ve cancelled four trips this year.<\/p>\n<p>So please keep praying as we continue to talk with potential ministry partners.<\/p>\n<p>Pray that God prepares people to give, and leads us to the people He desires to bless by being involved in our ministry.<\/p>\n<p>Pray that our attitude mirrors Paul\u2019s in Philippians 4:17: \u201cNot that I seek the gift, but I seek the fruit that abounds to your account.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our support has increased, but more is needed for us to carry out our ministry.<\/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":[4,1198],"tags":[31,1499,1511,45,35],"class_list":["post-4526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-ministry","category-prayer-request","tag-giving","tag-opportunities","tag-photography","tag-pray","tag-video","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4526","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=4526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}