{"id":337,"date":"2013-05-07T09:50:04","date_gmt":"2013-05-07T14:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jack-crabtree\/?p=337"},"modified":"2013-05-07T09:50:42","modified_gmt":"2013-05-07T14:50:42","slug":"plans-for-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jack-crabtree\/2013\/05\/07\/plans-for-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Plans for the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">As this semester sprints to a close, we&#8217;re gearing up for a summer of travel and transition. Lael has had in incredibly rewarding semester of intense linguistics classes. Even though the classes have been very time-consuming (they&#8217;ve analyzed 140 different languages), she feels they&#8217;ve helped prepare her for learning our tribal language and creating an alphabet for it in Papua New Guinea.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">I&#8217;ve had a great semester working on staff at the Development Office. The change of pace from being in school has been a welcome one, and I&#8217;ve definitely enjoyed the chance to do some more writing and mobilization.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">This summer we&#8217;ll be moving back to Fayetteville, where our &#8220;home base&#8221; will be until we move to PNG next year. I&#8217;ll also be heading to PNG in July for a month-long vision trip. I&#8217;m going with a few other guys who will also be doing church planting in PNG, and we&#8217;re excited to visit a few tribal church-plants, see the place we&#8217;ll initially move as family, and talk with country leadership. Please pray for the planning and logistics for this trip!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">In the fall, we&#8217;ll move as a family to Oklahoma to work with the Cherokee as part of the final practicum of the linguistics program. Lael will work with Cherokee speakers for seven weeks with a goal of completing a comprehensive write-up for the language and creating her own Cherokee alphabet.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">In mid-October, all of our pre-field training will be finished, and we&#8217;ll shift our complete focus to ministry partnership development (or support raising). The PNG field has given us a specific ministry budget for working in that country, so we plan to leave for PNG next year when that budget is met.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Many of you have already chosen to partner with us, and we want to say a huge thank you to you all! We couldn&#8217;t do this without your partnership (financial, prayer, emotional, wisdom) and we&#8217;re thankful God has designed it this way! We&#8217;re all part of the body trying to work together to see His goals accomplished: receiving maximum worship from His creation. There are more than 2300 language groups who have no one giving God glory at the moment, and we&#8217;re humbled and excited to be used of Him to scratch a name off that list. Thanks for joining us!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As this semester sprints to a close, we&#8217;re gearing up for a summer of travel and transition. 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