“Goodbye Danica, missionary-to-be”<\/p>\n
“Bye.”<\/p>\n
That short, matter-of-fact farewell happened nine years ago in Portland.\u00a0 I said goodbye to my youth pastor, who was also one of my best friend’s dad and had been my senior pastor for a short time.\u00a0 He was moving his family east to Pennsylvania, and I was leaving Oregon for Bible School in Waukesha, WI, that same summer.\u00a0 When I said goodbye to him and my friend and the whole family, I felt thankful for the impact they had made in my life, but didn’t know when or if I would see them again before heaven.\u00a0 And I haven’t seen any of them since.<\/p>\n
Today Jevon and I are packing the van so we can go east and spend three weeks with them!\u00a0 Not only has Pastor Kelly set up meetings for Jevon to speak in 3 Pennsylvania churches about tribal church planting in Brazil, but he has also invited us to stay with his family the whole time and help out his church with Vacation Bible School for their kids one week.\u00a0 We will be spending a few minutes each day with the kids talking about God’s purposes for His Word, and His Greatness, Power, Authority, Providence, and Love, to change lives in every tribe, language, people, and nation around the globe.\u00a0 We get to share with them the part we get to play and what they can do, also, to be a part of God’s mission in the world.<\/p>\n
We also get to do game time with the kids, in between teaching times and snacks.<\/p>\n
Who knew?\u00a0 After 9 years, now we get to partner together with the Kelly family for the gospel of Jesus.\u00a0 Please pray that kids there in Pennsylvania and<\/span> people groups in Brazil who have never heard God’s message will be impacted by the time we spend with old friends.\u00a0 Pray that God’s purposes in bringing us back together will be accomplished.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “Goodbye Danica, missionary-to-be” “Bye.” That short, matter-of-fact farewell happened nine years ago in Portland.\u00a0 I said goodbye to my youth pastor, who was also one of my best friend’s dad and had been my senior pastor for a short time.\u00a0 He was moving his family east to Pennsylvania, and I was leaving Oregon for Bible […]<\/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":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-462","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-family","7":"category-ministry","8":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jevon-rich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462","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=462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jevon-rich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jevon-rich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jevon-rich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jevon-rich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}