{"id":1561,"date":"2018-08-16T15:52:10","date_gmt":"2018-08-16T19:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jerry-mcdaniels\/?p=1561"},"modified":"2018-08-16T15:52:10","modified_gmt":"2018-08-16T19:52:10","slug":"god-is-doing-something-so-big","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jerry-mcdaniels\/2018\/08\/16\/god-is-doing-something-so-big\/","title":{"rendered":"God is doing something so BIG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1562\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jerry-mcdaniels\/files\/2018\/08\/Yao-literacy-class-Mozambique-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jerry-mcdaniels\/files\/2018\/08\/Yao-literacy-class-Mozambique-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jerry-mcdaniels\/files\/2018\/08\/Yao-literacy-class-Mozambique-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jerry-mcdaniels\/files\/2018\/08\/Yao-literacy-class-Mozambique-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jerry-mcdaniels\/files\/2018\/08\/Yao-literacy-class-Mozambique-125x70.jpg 125w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jerry-mcdaniels\/files\/2018\/08\/Yao-literacy-class-Mozambique-250x141.jpg 250w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jerry-mcdaniels\/files\/2018\/08\/Yao-literacy-class-Mozambique-450x253.jpg 450w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jerry-mcdaniels\/files\/2018\/08\/Yao-literacy-class-Mozambique-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The media is filled with stories of the evil and disasters of life. And each of us have plenty of our own cares that weigh our hearts down. But let&#8217;s not get distracted by\u00a0the difficulties each\u00a0day brings and miss the fact that our God is still on the Throne!\u00a0He is faithfully and with such loving-kindness building His kingdom in all the corners of the world. His life-giving Word is being translated by His servants into more and more languages.\u00a0People are holding these precious printed pages in their hands for the first time. But if they cannot read, it&#8217;s just unrecognized marks on the page.<\/p>\n<p>We are absolutely thrilled to work along with Bible translators and local churches to see literacy materials written in these languages and people learning to read with great comprehension. Just imagine, people reading God&#8217;s Word in their language for the first time. We have the <strong>BEST<\/strong> job ever!<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"mc-toc-title\">Upcoming literacy workshops you can cover with prayer:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>at Ethnos360 office in FL, August 28-30 to share the literacy software and training with other mission groups<\/li>\n<li>Brazil in October\/November to train consultants as well as write literacy curriculum in 3 more languages!<\/li>\n<li>next year to West Africa, Bolivia, follow-up trip to Brazil, along with possible trips to Panama and Asia-Pacific.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The media is filled with stories of the evil and disasters of life. And each of us have plenty of our own cares that weigh our hearts down. But let&#8217;s not get distracted by\u00a0the difficulties each\u00a0day brings and miss the fact that our God is still on the Throne!\u00a0He is faithfully and with such loving-kindness [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":209,"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":[4,3123],"tags":[448,43,652,406,653,160,48,654],"class_list":{"0":"post-1561","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-ministry","7":"category-prayer-request","8":"tag-ethnos360","9":"tag-gods-word","10":"tag-literacy","11":"tag-prayer","12":"tag-read","13":"tag-training","14":"tag-travel","15":"tag-write","16":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jerry-mcdaniels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jerry-mcdaniels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jerry-mcdaniels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jerry-mcdaniels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/209"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jerry-mcdaniels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jerry-mcdaniels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jerry-mcdaniels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jerry-mcdaniels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jerry-mcdaniels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}