{"id":248,"date":"2011-01-27T18:31:07","date_gmt":"2011-01-27T22:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jonathan-parker\/?p=248"},"modified":"2011-01-28T09:18:33","modified_gmt":"2011-01-28T13:18:33","slug":"staying-focused","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jonathan-parker\/2011\/01\/27\/staying-focused\/","title":{"rendered":"Staying Focused"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_249\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-249\" style=\"width: 221px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jonathan-parker\/files\/2011\/01\/elin-with-child.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-249  \" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jonathan-parker\/files\/2011\/01\/elin-with-child.jpg\" alt=\"elin with child\" width=\"221\" height=\"294\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jonathan-parker\/files\/2011\/01\/elin-with-child.jpg 500w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jonathan-parker\/files\/2011\/01\/elin-with-child-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jonathan-parker\/files\/2011\/01\/elin-with-child-82x110.jpg 82w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jonathan-parker\/files\/2011\/01\/elin-with-child-187x250.jpg 187w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 221px) 100vw, 221px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-249\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elin doing some medical work.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Next week we will head to the Health Department for routine blood work and more immunizations in preparation for our move to Africa.\u00a0 We will certainly be glad when we get the shots out of the way.\u00a0 In the midst of all the planning and preparation it is so easy to lose sight of why we are making this move.\u00a0 It has been refreshing to take some time to read about what God is currently doing in Mozambique through the lives of our future co-workers. Even as I write NTM missionaries Phil &amp; Elin and Francois &amp; Nadia are making progress in the preparation of Bible lessons in the Mwinika language. The Mwinika village leaders have decided that the Bible lessons, once completed, will be taught in the village near Phil and Elin\u2019s home four times each week, Monday through Thursday.\u00a0 The focus of their teaching will be four nearby communities with 1,500 people. They would like to begin teaching by mid February and estimate that the teaching, covering Creation through Christ, will take more than four months to complete. It is exciting to think that by the time we arrive in Mozambique that we could very possibly have new Mwinika brothers and sisters in Christ.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_250\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-250\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jonathan-parker\/files\/2011\/01\/Phil-with-friend.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-250 \" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jonathan-parker\/files\/2011\/01\/Phil-with-friend-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"Phil sitting with a friend\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-250\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Phil sitting with a friend<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We look forward to the time when we can be a part of the support team undergirding the work going on among the Mwinika as well as the other church planting efforts going on in Mozambique.\u00a0 If you would like to know more about what is happening among the Mwinika in Mozambique you can read more at the following link:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ntm.org\/phil_henderson\">www.ntm.org\/phil_henderson<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next week we will head to the Health Department for routine blood work and more immunizations in preparation for our move to Africa.\u00a0 We will certainly be glad when we get the shots out of the way.\u00a0 In the midst of all the planning and preparation it is so easy to lose sight of why [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-family","category-ministry","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jonathan-parker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jonathan-parker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jonathan-parker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jonathan-parker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jonathan-parker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jonathan-parker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jonathan-parker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jonathan-parker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jonathan-parker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}