{"id":228,"date":"2016-03-02T23:36:08","date_gmt":"2016-03-03T04:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/imie-mark\/?p=228"},"modified":"2016-03-08T19:32:43","modified_gmt":"2016-03-09T00:32:43","slug":"t-minus-5-counting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/imie-mark\/2016\/03\/02\/t-minus-5-counting\/","title":{"rendered":"T-minus 5 & Counting…"},"content":{"rendered":"

We knew it was coming, at least we were pretty sure it was coming, well, 99.9% sure, and you can\u2019t be much more sure than that.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t super dramatic, not dramatic at all really, I mean if you had in mind there might be a media player of some sort announcing a mission (should we choose to accept it) and then self-destructing seconds later, it was nothing like that.\u00a0 Nonetheless Monday morning we heard the long anticipated words from our leadership team, \u201cwe\u2019re assigning your family to Papua New Guinea.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cue the Hallelujah Chorus<\/a>\u2026that\u2019s just about how our hearts felt.\u00a0 We\u2019ve labored toward this end for more than 18 years and the Lord has worked so incredibly to bring us to this point.\u00a0 Though it wasn\u2019t a fancy message, it was one we\u2019d longed to hear and at last, having heard it, the floodgates opened and joy came spilling through the causeways.\u00a0 We actually have an assignment!\u00a0 Not only that, we have a target timeframe to be in country\u2014August.\u00a0 Not 2017, 1 Aug 2016, just under 5 months from today.<\/p>\n

Could we take longer to get there?\u00a0 Yes, we could, and probably no one would bat an eye.\u00a0 But here\u2019s the deal, that song, the Hallelujah Chorus, the message it proclaims, that\u2019s a message that countless millions have never heard.\u00a0 The tribes of Papua New Guinea (PNG) live in fear and bondage to the animistic spirits they believe control their lives.\u00a0 From the spirits of animals and dead ancestors to a host of impersonal forces, there are a myriad of powers to whom the people give thanks, and honor, and to whom they attribute power and strength to influence every aspect of their lives.<\/p>\n

Truth is, there is ONE God and His Son, Jesus Christ, is \u201cKing of Kings, and Lord of Lords, and He shall reign forever and ever.\u201d\u00a0 We are compelled, therefore by Christ\u2019s love to act in keeping with the sense of urgency the situation demands of us.\u00a0 There are unnumbered lost souls, teetering on the brink of a Christless eternity and we deeply desire that the Lord should use us to do all that we can to support those reaching the unreached and least reached peoples of PNG that they should have the opportunity to hear and respond to His Truth.\u00a0 It is our heartfelt prayer they too might find themselves in eternity standing \u2018round the throne and joining in the chorus to the ONE, TRUE God to whom alone shall be ascribed \u201cBlessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and strength\u2026forever and ever.\u201d (Rev 7:9)<\/p>\n

We\u2019re excited (you\u2019ve probably pick up on that by now) but that\u2019s tempered with a sense of the tremendous amount of work which stands between us and reaching PNG. \u00a05 months\u2026that\u2019s it.\u00a0 Would you join us in prayer as we tackle mountains of paperwork, a calendar full of doctor\u2019s visits, more shots than a Final Four game, paring down & packing up, and trusting the Lord for the resources still needed to make the trip and provide for our family\u2019s monthly needs.\u00a0 Thanks for walking this journey with us, to God be the glory!<\/p>\n

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