{"id":4088,"date":"2015-12-11T16:51:12","date_gmt":"2015-12-11T16:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/?p=4088"},"modified":"2015-12-11T16:51:12","modified_gmt":"2015-12-11T16:51:12","slug":"after-the-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/2015\/12\/11\/after-the-storm\/","title":{"rendered":"After the Storm"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Our<\/a>
Our busy season comes to an end<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It has been awhile since I have posted. \u00a0 That should be an indicator of what the rest of our November was like – incredibly busy. \u00a0The craziness started with a week of intensive training in language evaluations. \u00a0Then after that week I headed straight to help in the preparation of a 2 week training on the language advising. \u00a0It was the same training I went to in Thailand and Tanzania, but now we were having it here in Senegal. \u00a0We had 75 people here from 17 nationalities working in 30 different countries. \u00a0It was a joy to see this training take place here where a lot of the people I work with could participate, but it was also an extreme amount of work. \u00a0There were times that I wondered if if would come together, but in the end it all worked out. \u00a0I did some teaching up front, lead a table group and also was in charge of the cooking staff. \u00a0Joel and Joel’s mom both participated in the training, which left Joel’s dad home alone with the boys during those two weeks. \u00a0Half way through the training Joel’s Grandma when to be with the Lord. \u00a0So these past three weeks were filled with many emotions and left Joel and I returning home quite drained and ready for a break.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>
The table group I lead<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Joel's<\/a>
Joel’s group<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So now our goal for this month is to rest and heal. \u00a0What a better time to do it than the time of year when we celebrate our saviors coming. \u00a0 We canceled wolof sessions for the month and are taking of the last week of December off completely to head out to the beach. \u00a0Joel’s folks left this week to the US to celebrate the life of Joel’s grandma. \u00a0We will miss having them here for Christmas, but are glad that they will be able to be with our larger family over this time.<\/p>\n

\"We<\/a>
We decorated a day after getting back<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We are thankful to have made it through our crazy fall, but are even more thankful to the time of rest we are about to have. \u00a0God has been faithful to us through the storm. \u00a0Now we are resting in the peace that we have because of the gift given to us so many years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It has been awhile since I have posted. \u00a0 That should be an indicator of what the rest of our November was like – incredibly busy. \u00a0The craziness started with a week of intensive training in language evaluations. \u00a0Then after that week I headed straight to help in the preparation of a 2 week training […]<\/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":[448,637],"class_list":{"0":"post-4088","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-updates-and-news","7":"tag-ethnos360","8":"tag-new-tribes-mission","9":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4088","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=4088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}