{"id":3283,"date":"2014-06-30T19:02:57","date_gmt":"2014-06-30T19:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/?p=3283"},"modified":"2014-06-30T20:39:33","modified_gmt":"2014-06-30T20:39:33","slug":"and-were-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/2014\/06\/30\/and-were-off\/","title":{"rendered":"And We’re Off"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sunday Our Church Gathered Around Us To Pray<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This week has been a week of goodbyes, to some people who will be here when we return in 6 months and others who will leave between now and then.\u00a0 The emotions have been up and down as we have been caught off guard by how much this has become our home.<\/p>\n

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Our last meal with our host family<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Sad Goodbyes to friend who are moving away<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Wednesday we board a plane, actually 3 planes, as we will fly all day to our final destination of St. Louis.\u00a0 You can pray for us as these are long flights equaling a long day of travel.\u00a0 On top of that, our second flight’s time changed making our layover really short.\u00a0 I am praying that somehow we will make it, but it seems very unlikely.<\/p>\n

After picking up our car in St Louis we will head to the NTM training center for a week as a family to process this transition and get some much needed sleep.\u00a0 We have run hard at the end and we are feeling the exhaustion. After that we will make our trek across the US, stopping to see family, friends and supporters.\u00a0 We will meet up with Andi’s family for a family reunion in California.\u00a0 Then finally we will make it to Portland.\u00a0 We plan to take this month off.\u00a0 So if you don’t hear from us for a while that is why. We would love your prayers that God would use this time to refresh our hearts and renew our spirits.<\/p>\n

However….<\/p>\n

August 2nd, from 10 am\u00a0 – 2 pm, we will have a Welcome Back Open House.\u00a0 All of you in the Portland and Vancouver area are invited to come.\u00a0 It will take place at: 4111 E Burnside.\u00a0 It is just a casual time to say hi to any who want to come.\u00a0 We would also love to see as many people as we can over our 6 months in the states.\u00a0 So get something on the calendar with us! \u00a0\u00a0 It seems like a long time, but it will go fast.<\/p>\n

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Don't miss the opportunity to hear and see a little of our life and ministry!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This week has been a week of goodbyes, to some people who will be here when we return in 6 months and others who will leave between now and then.\u00a0 The emotions have been up and down as we have been caught off guard by how much this has become our home. Wednesday we board […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":830,"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":[2545],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3283","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-updates-and-news","7":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/830"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}