{"id":199,"date":"2024-11-27T17:44:37","date_gmt":"2024-11-27T21:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joe-evans\/?p=199"},"modified":"2024-11-27T17:44:37","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T21:44:37","slug":"thanksgiving-2024-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joe-evans\/2024\/11\/27\/thanksgiving-2024-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanksgiving 2024 Update"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Greetings all from the mountains of central Papua New Guinea, and a very Happy Thanksgiving to you all.\u00a0 Things have been going well since my return to the field this fall.<\/p>\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-200\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joe-evans\/files\/2024\/11\/Wagi-NT-1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joe-evans\/files\/2024\/11\/Wagi-NT-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joe-evans\/files\/2024\/11\/Wagi-NT-1-83x110.jpg 83w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joe-evans\/files\/2024\/11\/Wagi-NT-1-188x250.jpg 188w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joe-evans\/files\/2024\/11\/Wagi-NT-1-190x253.jpg 190w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joe-evans\/files\/2024\/11\/Wagi-NT-1.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>Here in the shipping department, we\u2019ve had a couple of exciting things happening.\u00a0 We\u2019ve been able to assist with the import of two different Bible translations- Kuman and Wagi.\u00a0 Praise the Lord that the people in these locations now have the New Testament in their own language.\u00a0 Please to continue to pray for our other missionaries laboring to teach and translate the Word of God to the people of PNG.<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>Of course, there\u2019s a whole lot more prosaic items to be imported and guided through the labyrinth of PNG Customs procedures- water filtration supplies, forklifts, and various essential items like solar electric systems for remote locations.\u00a0 Please pray that the Lord give wisdom to myself and my partners in this role, and favor with the PNG Government.<\/p>\r\n<p>The aviation fuel situation continues to be a problem.\u00a0 Praise the Lord we\u2019ve been able to maintain our flight operations, but pray we can find a cost efficient long term solution.\u00a0 We have been blessed with a team of new pilots for our helicopters and fixed wing airplanes.\u00a0 Please pray for our aviation team as they need to both train the new guys, and keep up the necessary flights.<\/p>\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-201\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joe-evans\/files\/2024\/11\/Wagi-NT-2-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joe-evans\/files\/2024\/11\/Wagi-NT-2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joe-evans\/files\/2024\/11\/Wagi-NT-2-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joe-evans\/files\/2024\/11\/Wagi-NT-2-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joe-evans\/files\/2024\/11\/Wagi-NT-2-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joe-evans\/files\/2024\/11\/Wagi-NT-2-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joe-evans\/files\/2024\/11\/Wagi-NT-2-83x110.jpg 83w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joe-evans\/files\/2024\/11\/Wagi-NT-2-188x250.jpg 188w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joe-evans\/files\/2024\/11\/Wagi-NT-2-190x253.jpg 190w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joe-evans\/files\/2024\/11\/Wagi-NT-2-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>Please keep the PNG field in your prayers, as our usual problem of the lack of personnel continues to have an effect on both our tribal and support ministries.\u00a0 As Jesus said, \u201cThe harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>Finally, thanks once again for your prayers, and for your financial support.\u00a0 Please pray for provision for my summer 2025 visit to the USA, plus the general cost of life here on the field of PNG.<\/p>\r\n<p>If you would like to help out finically, <a href=\"https:\/\/ethnos360.org\/missionaries\/joe-evans\">please click here<\/a><\/p>\r\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings all from the mountains of central Papua New Guinea, and a very Happy Thanksgiving to you all.\u00a0 Things have been going well since my return to the field this fall. &nbsp; Here in the shipping department, we\u2019ve had a couple of exciting things happening.\u00a0 We\u2019ve been able to assist with the import of two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182,"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":[4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-199","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-ministry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joe-evans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joe-evans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joe-evans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joe-evans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joe-evans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joe-evans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joe-evans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}