{"id":4439,"date":"2016-06-01T13:04:52","date_gmt":"2016-06-01T13:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/?p=4439"},"modified":"2016-06-01T13:04:52","modified_gmt":"2016-06-01T13:04:52","slug":"mothers-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/2016\/06\/01\/mothers-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother’s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Our family picture, as promised, and the reason I get to celebrate Mother’s day<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Mother’s day is celebrated the last week in May here. \u00a0Joel always likes it because he gets a warning from the American Mother’s Day reminding him to prepare. \u00a0This past Mother’s day was unexpectedly a blessing to me. \u00a0Usually on Mother’s day the women of our church head out to a village to meet with the mothers from another church. \u00a0This year the details of that didn’t get worked out so we ended up staying in town and meeting at our church with the women of our two churches. \u00a0Our family had obligations in the village to attend a wedding out there so I was not able to stay after church for the meal and devotional. \u00a0However after we had eaten at the wedding and were heading home we passed by the church to see if people were still there. \u00a0To my pleasant surprise we got back just in time for games. \u00a0We played charades and a game with singing. \u00a0By the end of the time I was laughing so hard that tears were streaming down my face. \u00a0It was so good and so healthy to gather together as woman and just laugh. \u00a0However as I was heading home I started tearing up about something different. \u00a04 years ago I could never imagine wanting to hang out with people here, enjoying myself well doing so and not coming home exhausted. \u00a0So much has changed and I was just praising God. \u00a0Praising God that he has given me a group of women who want me to be around, care about me, and who will laugh with me until tears are streaming down our faces. \u00a0It was something I could have never imagined as the culture and language barrier seemed so large, but now I fully treasure it as the gift it is.<\/p>\n

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All the women of our church with their Mother’s Day gifts made by the kids.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The newest blessing to our church – Samuel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The group of women that has become to precious to me<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mother’s day is celebrated the last week in May here. \u00a0Joel always likes it because he gets a warning from the American Mother’s Day reminding him to prepare. \u00a0This past Mother’s day was unexpectedly a blessing to me. \u00a0Usually on Mother’s day the women of our church head out to a village to meet with […]<\/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-4439","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\/4439","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=4439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-mcmartin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}