{"id":834,"date":"2010-12-06T17:18:38","date_gmt":"2010-12-06T21:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jerry-mcdaniels\/?p=834"},"modified":"2011-01-04T15:31:29","modified_gmt":"2011-01-04T19:31:29","slug":"dangerous-curves-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jerry-mcdaniels\/2010\/12\/06\/dangerous-curves-ahead\/","title":{"rendered":"Dangerous Curves Ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_835\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-835\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-835\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jerry-mcdaniels\/files\/2010\/12\/Simba-Trip-2010-210-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"the understatement of the day - dangerous curves ahead\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-835\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">the understatement of the day - dangerous curves ahead<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Thank you so much for standing with us in prayer while we were in Bolivia! We had a wonderful time getting to know the missionary candidates who are preparing for service. They learned about literacy\u2019s importance in church planting and discipleship and practiced writing primers and teaching them.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_841\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-841\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-841\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jerry-mcdaniels\/files\/2010\/12\/Simba-Trip-2010-0221-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"look Mom - no railing\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-841\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">look Mom - no railing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After class was done we traveled to the other side of Bolivia to the Simba work to encourage the team with their literacy ministry. (For pictures of our harrowing trip along winding mountain roads, click on the\u00a0Photos tab and then\u00a0on: our last trip). <!--more-->God is doing exciting things in the Simba church.\u00a0But with very low literacy levels among the Simba people, there are only a handful of people who can read and use the Simba Bible translation and study materials. Even many of the church leaders struggle to read the Word with comprehension. Pray that the team will have wisdom as they move forward with their literacy strategy \u2013 that every Simba person will have the opportunity to read God\u2019s Word in their own language!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you so much for standing with us in prayer while we were in Bolivia! We had a wonderful time getting to know the missionary candidates who are preparing for service. They learned about literacy\u2019s importance in church planting and discipleship and practiced writing primers and teaching them. After class was done we traveled to [&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":[657,649,43,652,406,653,48,6,654],"class_list":["post-834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-ministry","category-prayer-request","tag-changed-lives","tag-church-planting","tag-gods-word","tag-literacy","tag-prayer","tag-read","tag-travel","tag-tribal","tag-write","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jerry-mcdaniels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834","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=834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jerry-mcdaniels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jerry-mcdaniels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jerry-mcdaniels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jerry-mcdaniels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}