{"id":2,"date":"2009-08-14T16:35:03","date_gmt":"2009-08-14T20:35:03","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-08-10T15:54:58","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T19:54:58","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joe-evans\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings everyone, and thanks for visiting my page.<\/p>\n<p>A little bit about my background.\u00a0 I was born and raised in Leesburg, Florida, a place I still consider to be my home.\u00a0 I became a Christian when I was around the age of six.\u00a0 Shortly after, the Lord put into my heart a desire to serve as a missionary.\u00a0 I joined New Tribes Mission in 1998, and first went to Papua New Guinea in 1999.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_134\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-134\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joe-evans\/files\/2009\/08\/Lae1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-134 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joe-evans\/files\/2009\/08\/Lae1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Always time to stop and pet the sharks.\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joe-evans\/files\/2009\/08\/Lae1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joe-evans\/files\/2009\/08\/Lae1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joe-evans\/files\/2009\/08\/Lae1-375x500.jpg 375w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joe-evans\/files\/2009\/08\/Lae1.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-134\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Always time to stop and pet the sharks.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I have worked a great variety of support ministries since.\u00a0 Some of the thing I have done include construction, mechanics, guest house manager, tribal supply, loading helicopters and airplanes, and whatever else has been needed to help out.\u00a0 In 2013, I moved to the Business Office, where I handled international shipping and logistics for the field, looked after the field insurance department, worked with paying the bills, and a bunch of other essential task.<\/p>\n<p>In the summer of 2026, I left PNG to move to the Homes of Ethnos 360 in Sanford, Florida.\u00a0 They asked me to take on the role of Finance Manager, a job that the years in the Business Office have helped prepare me for.\u00a0 Our purpose here is to look after NTM\/ Ethnos 360 missionaries who have retired from various fields of service.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings everyone, and thanks for visiting my page. A little bit about my background.\u00a0 I was born and raised in Leesburg, Florida, a place I still consider to be my home.\u00a0 I became a Christian when I was around the age of six.\u00a0 Shortly after, the Lord put into my heart a desire to serve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","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":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joe-evans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joe-evans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joe-evans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joe-evans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joe-evans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joe-evans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joe-evans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joe-evans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}