{"id":1572,"date":"2022-02-26T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-26T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-potter\/?p=1572"},"modified":"2022-02-25T20:19:16","modified_gmt":"2022-02-26T01:19:16","slug":"overdue-fines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-potter\/2022\/02\/26\/overdue-fines\/","title":{"rendered":"Overdue fines?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You may not have heard much from us but we\u2019re still here and going. How about we catch you up?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you haven\u2019t caught any of our recent updates in our Ministry Group on Facebook, it looks like we dropped off the map. But that\u2019s not the case. We\u2019ve stayed busy as ever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">August 2021-December 2021<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When we last updated you via email, Joel was about to spend a week in Missouri at the Ethnos360 Training Center for a video shoot. The time there was a huge success too! Technically and personally, it went smoothly and gave Joel the chance to record a very important introductory course on the topic of learning about the culture of another person or people group. It was genuinely fun for him to shoot with three different instructors in a studio environment as well as the chance to shoot instructor intro videos in various outdoor locations at the campus there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the other hand, the \u201cPotter Equilibrium\u201d was rocked while he was gone and we experienced a challenge with Owen\u2019s experience at his new-for-9th-grade school. While Joel was in MO we decided to enroll him at the same school as Jack has been at for the last three years. That made the overall trip a tough one, but the Lord saw us through it and we\u2019re happy to share that Owen is at home in this new environment. Both boys attend classes on campus on Tuesdays and Thursdays and then work on the homework assigned for their classes the other three weekdays. While we\u2019re content with this, it does require Bethany and I both to be much more involved in Owen\u2019s education throughout the week. And let me tell you what! We are not enjoying the math side of that \ud83d\ude02.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-potter\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_0850-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1573\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-potter\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_0850-scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-potter\/?attachment_id=1573\" class=\"wp-image-1573\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-potter\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_0850-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-potter\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_0850-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-potter\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_0850-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-potter\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_0850-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-potter\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_0850-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-potter\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_0850-125x94.jpg 125w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-potter\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_0850-250x188.jpg 250w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-potter\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_0850-337x253.jpg 337w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-potter\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_0850-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-potter\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_0806-600x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1574\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-potter\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_0806.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-potter\/?attachment_id=1574\" class=\"wp-image-1574\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-potter\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_0806-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-potter\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_0806-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-potter\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_0806-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-potter\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_0806-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-potter\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_0806-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-potter\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_0806-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-potter\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_0806-110x110.jpg 110w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-potter\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_0806-250x250.jpg 250w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-potter\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_0806-253x253.jpg 253w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-potter\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_0806-80x80.jpg 80w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/joel-potter\/files\/2022\/02\/IMG_0806-1920x1921.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><figcaption class=\"blocks-gallery-caption\">That&#8217;s Culture Instructor Bill D. on the left and the beautiful Ethnos360 Training Center on the right<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As we progressed through the rest of the Fall and into Winter, we had the chance to take a couple of fun personal trips with the kids and Joel (Bethany\u2019s Mom Lynn is getting to the point where her Alzheimer\u2019s Disease necessitates traveling less. More on how that\u2019s going later in this edition). And while the trip to MO went as well as it did, with there being more education needs (and shuttling to various places during the week) as well as Lynn\u2019s care, we decided for Joel to not travel if at all possible for the remaining video shoots. So, with space reserved at the Ethnos360 Home Office, we made our way through another three video shoots for courses. And in one case, due to sickness, Bethany completely handled the video shoot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And in between all of that, lots of life took place. We had holidays with family, minor crises\u2019 in the world of middle-school politics \ud83d\ude09 and we also began to gather weekly with a house church. Let me say how much of a blessing, getting to know those folks, has been! God graciously put some new friends into our lives at just the right time and it\u2019s rewarding to reframe our understanding of how a local church carries out the mandate to be the Body of Christ to one another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Stay tuned for the next post on what&#8217;s happened so far this year and what we are possibly looking at further down the road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may not have heard much from us but we\u2019re still here and going. How about we catch you up? If you haven\u2019t caught any of our recent updates in our Ministry Group on Facebook, it looks like we dropped off the map. But that\u2019s not the case. We\u2019ve stayed busy as ever. 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