{"id":4615,"date":"2012-07-20T09:47:20","date_gmt":"2012-07-20T13:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/?p=4615"},"modified":"2012-07-22T12:51:52","modified_gmt":"2012-07-22T16:51:52","slug":"for-generations-to-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/2012\/07\/20\/for-generations-to-come\/","title":{"rendered":"For generations to come"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4620\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4620\" style=\"width: 211px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/files\/2012\/07\/letter1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4620\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/files\/2012\/07\/letter1-211x300.jpg\" alt=\"Letter\" width=\"211\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4620\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The original letter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Mengen people were concerned. They had heard about missionaries having to leave their ministries and return home, and they knew the missionaries ministering to them, Lourens and Maria Laureti, faced challenges for their daughter\u2019s education.<\/p>\n<p>So they wrote a letter. The village and church leaders signed it, and insisted Lourens translate it and share it with all his family\u2019s supporters. Here\u2019s the main thought:<\/p>\n<p><em>We would like this missionary, Lourens Laureti, to stay with us until he dies. We would like this for the following two reasons: He has taught us about God and His Word and now many has come to faith in our village. He is of good character and teaches us about God and His ways. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s an honor that the Mengen people value Lourens so highly. But they know that without supporters, he cannot stay and work among them.<\/p>\n<p>People like you make ministry like ours and Lourens\u2019 possible around the world. Or as Lourens wrote, \u201cThis is only possible because of you guys standing with us and supporting us. Thanks very much for making it possible for us to give our lives in His service.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for the role you play in our ministry. You are not simply funding us or our ministry. Even saying you are changing lives is not enough. You are helping establish churches, like the one among the Mengens, that will help change lives for generations to come.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/contact\/\">Drop us a line if you&#8217;d like to get our newsletter and know more about how you can help.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mengen people were concerned. They had heard about missionaries having to leave their ministries and return home, and they knew the missionaries ministering to them, Lourens and Maria Laureti, faced challenges for their daughter\u2019s education. So they wrote a letter. The village and church leaders signed it, and insisted Lourens translate it and share [&hellip;]<\/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":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4615","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-ministry","7":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4615","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=4615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ian-fallis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}