{"id":473,"date":"2012-04-09T17:55:53","date_gmt":"2012-04-09T22:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/john-kerstetter\/?p=473"},"modified":"2015-06-19T17:56:48","modified_gmt":"2015-06-19T22:56:48","slug":"gods-perfect-timing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/john-kerstetter\/2012\/04\/09\/gods-perfect-timing\/","title":{"rendered":"God’s Perfect Timing"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"flowers<\/a> \"flowers<\/a>We are loving Spring <\/i><\/span><\/strong>in the Ozarks! Seeing new life all around us is a wonderful reminder of\u00a0the new life in Christ <\/i><\/span><\/strong>that we have. After the incredible sacrifice <\/i><\/span><\/strong>of His life for us, our Savior\u00a0overcame death<\/i><\/span><\/strong>, and has enabled us with that same power<\/i><\/span><\/strong>!<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThat I may know him,<\/span><\/em>
\nand the power of his resurrection,<\/span><\/em>
\nand the fellowship of his sufferings,<\/span><\/em>
\nbeing made conformable unto his death;\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

– Philippians 3:10<\/span><\/p>\n

Over the past months we’ve had opportunities for learning and growth <\/i><\/span><\/strong>in many areas of our lives. Two main ways this has\u00a0happened have been:<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. Auditing some classes here at the MTC (Missionary Training Center). This has\u00a0been a great opportunity to learn about the current curriculum for the missionary candidates,\u00a0pick up some new tools for partnership development, and also develop awareness in many\u00a0different areas.<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Taking Dave Ramsey’s Financial Peace University course at our home church.\u00a0This has helped us work on developing better skills for financial management.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    We are very grateful for God’s perfect timing <\/i><\/span><\/strong>in our lives.\u00a0Most of you know that John’s mom passed away on\u00a0March 3rd. After declining health in recent months, we\u00a0took her to the hospital on February 29th where she was\u00a0diagnosed with probable <\/i>pancreatic cancer (they had no\u00a0\u201cproof\u201d from any exams, including biopsies). A few short days\u00a0later on March 3rd the Lord freed her from her suffering and took\u00a0her Home. We had a beautiful memorial service for her on\u00a0March 5th; a celebration of her life and a time for many testimonies of how many lives she had\u00a0touched. We see God’s timing in bringing us back from Brazil when He did so we were able to\u00a0have some good months with her before she declined too much. We also were able to help\u00a0both John’s dad, who had a knee replacement in November, and John’s mom, who was hospitalized\u00a0in December right before his dad went home from rehab. We are very thankful we have been here\u00a0through all this and are living close to John’s dad (about a \u00bd hour away) to be available during this\u00a0time of adjustment for him. Thank you for all your prayers during this time!<\/span><\/p>\n

    \"family\"<\/a>Please praise the Lord <\/i><\/span><\/strong>with us for His provisions<\/i><\/span><\/strong>! He has provided many things for us like used furniture and basic essentials\u00a0for setting up a home, as well as a gift from our church to buy a much needed, good quality mattress. We are also grateful for\u00a0the medical care <\/i><\/span><\/strong>we have been receiving. In the past couple of months John has had various\u00a0medical needs attended to and some of these require further follow up. Also, Melanie has some\u00a0ongoing medical needs that we continue to look after. Please pray <\/i><\/span><\/strong>for God’s provision for these\u00a0extra medical bills and wisdom for us and the doctors from whom we are getting help.<\/span><\/p>\n

    We would also ask for continued prayer <\/i><\/span><\/strong>for the sale of our house <\/i><\/span><\/strong>in Brazil. It seems like now\u00a0would be a good time for it to sell as it is the harvest season and there is usually more interest in\u00a0real estate. However, our ways are not His ways, and we are trusting the Lord and waiting on\u00a0Him to bring along the right buyer at the right time.\"flowers<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

    Thank you for your partnership with us! We appreciate your prayers and interest in our lives\u00a0and ministry as together we spread the hope of Christ’s death and resurrection to the nations!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    We are loving Spring in the Ozarks! Seeing new life all around us is a wonderful reminder of\u00a0the new life in Christ that we have. After the incredible sacrifice of His life for us, our Savior\u00a0overcame death, and has enabled us with that same power! \u201cThat I may know him, and the power of his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"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":[3],"tags":[20041,56],"class_list":["post-473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-family","tag-family-2","tag-mtc","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/john-kerstetter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/john-kerstetter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/john-kerstetter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/john-kerstetter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/john-kerstetter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/john-kerstetter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/john-kerstetter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/john-kerstetter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/john-kerstetter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}