{"id":1139,"date":"2013-07-13T16:16:23","date_gmt":"2013-07-13T21:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jevon-rich\/?p=1139"},"modified":"2013-07-13T16:21:38","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T21:21:38","slug":"back-home-and-at-it-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jevon-rich\/2013\/07\/13\/back-home-and-at-it-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Back home and at it again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s no way to express how good it was to be there for Amos and Cymbre&#8217;s wedding day.\u00a0 It was also very special to reconnect with family, the Meadowbrook church in Molalla, Oregon, and Salem in Eau Claire, Wisconsin.\u00a0 A huge thank you to our home church, Salem, for making this trip possible for us.\u00a0 You can see a more complete &#8220;thank you&#8221; letter on our blog\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jevon-rich\/2013\/07\/13\/to-salem\/\">TO SALEM&gt;&gt;&gt; <\/a><\/p>\n<p>For those of you who know Danica&#8217;s brother Amos, here is a picture of him and his beautiful bride, Cymbre.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jevon-rich\/files\/2013\/07\/amos-and-cymbre.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1140\" title=\"amos and cymbre\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jevon-rich\/files\/2013\/07\/amos-and-cymbre.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"399\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jevon-rich\/files\/2013\/07\/amos-and-cymbre.jpg 399w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jevon-rich\/files\/2013\/07\/amos-and-cymbre-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jevon-rich\/files\/2013\/07\/amos-and-cymbre-332x500.jpg 332w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jevon-rich\/files\/2013\/07\/amos-and-cymbre-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1141\" title=\"amos and cymbre 2\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jevon-rich\/files\/2013\/07\/amos-and-cymbre-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jevon-rich\/files\/2013\/07\/amos-and-cymbre-2.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jevon-rich\/files\/2013\/07\/amos-and-cymbre-2-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jevon-rich\/files\/2013\/07\/amos-and-cymbre-2-500x332.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve been home for three weeks, now, and life is back to normal:\u00a0 the kids are catching lizards and whatever other critters they can find while Jevon and I study away at Portuguese.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jevon-rich\/files\/2013\/07\/DSCN6919.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1142\" title=\"DSCN6919\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jevon-rich\/files\/2013\/07\/DSCN6919.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jevon-rich\/files\/2013\/07\/DSCN6919.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jevon-rich\/files\/2013\/07\/DSCN6919-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jevon-rich\/files\/2013\/07\/DSCN6919-500x375.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jevon-rich\/files\/2013\/07\/DSCN6967.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1143\" title=\"DSCN6967\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jevon-rich\/files\/2013\/07\/DSCN6967.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jevon-rich\/files\/2013\/07\/DSCN6967.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jevon-rich\/files\/2013\/07\/DSCN6967-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jevon-rich\/files\/2013\/07\/DSCN6967-500x375.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With so many of our Brazilian friends gone traveling for school break during this month of July, we are focusing more time and energy into reviewing, processing, and analyzing language.\u00a0 Here, Jevon is listening to part of a sermon in Portuguese and transcribing it.\u00a0 After that he will mark it all up with notes about verb forms and other parts of speech.\u00a0 In this kind of work what we are doing is <strong>aggressively listening<\/strong> &#8211; taking note of the FORM people choose to use to communicate the MEANING they want to communicate.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">THANK GOD FOR:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>a good trip<\/strong> for Danica and Isaiah<\/li>\n<li>the relationships that we have with each of <strong>you<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>God&#8217;s faithful provision<\/strong> for every need in every area of life<\/li>\n<li>the <strong>time, energy, and zeal<\/strong> He gives us for study<\/li>\n<li>the daily encouragement He gives us in <strong>His Word<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">PLEASE CONTINUE TO PRAY FOR:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>the rest of the language and culture<\/strong> we need to absorb and apply.\u00a0 Our goal is to finish NCLA before the end of the year &#8211; we are aiming for as early as October or no later than December.<\/li>\n<li><strong>focus<\/strong> for Jevon as this finishing phase of language learning can be&#8230;well&#8230;kind of boring sometimes&#8230;but has to be finished!<\/li>\n<li><strong>creative time management<\/strong> for Danica each day, to get this language learned and still stay tuned in as a wife and mom.<\/li>\n<li><strong>the flight program<\/strong>.\u00a0 See more about <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jevon-rich\/2013\/07\/13\/flight-program\/\">Flight Program &gt;&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/li>\n<li>clarity in the <strong>decision<\/strong> of where we will work after we finish NCLA<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>With joy, partnering with you as co-workers in Christ,<\/p>\n<p>The Rich family<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s no way to express how good it was to be there for Amos and Cymbre&#8217;s wedding day.\u00a0 It was also very special to reconnect with family, the Meadowbrook church in Molalla, Oregon, and Salem in Eau Claire, Wisconsin.\u00a0 A huge thank you to our home church, Salem, for making this trip possible for us.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":552,"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":[3,160],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1139","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-family","7":"category-training","8":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jevon-rich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jevon-rich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jevon-rich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jevon-rich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/552"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jevon-rich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jevon-rich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jevon-rich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jevon-rich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jevon-rich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}