{"id":330,"date":"2011-02-21T18:39:59","date_gmt":"2011-02-21T22:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jonathan-parker\/?p=330"},"modified":"2011-02-21T18:40:13","modified_gmt":"2011-02-21T22:40:13","slug":"home-where-the-buffalo-roam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jonathan-parker\/2011\/02\/21\/home-where-the-buffalo-roam\/","title":{"rendered":"Home&#8230;Where the Buffalo Roam"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_332\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-332\" style=\"width: 344px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-332   \" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jonathan-parker\/files\/2011\/02\/Buffalo-1-1024x832.jpg\" alt=\"Hey, Come Back!\" width=\"344\" height=\"279\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-332\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hey, Come Back!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Saturday afternoon I received a call from my brother and when he asked what I was up to I said matter-of-factly \u201cI am out on the prairie\u201d.\u00a0 We had just spent time out on the prairie with our friends Brian &amp; Gayla who live at and manage the <a href=\"http:\/\/mostateparks.com\/prairie.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Prairie State Park<\/a> here in Missouri.\u00a0 Though the scenery was not quite as beautiful as it would be in the spring and summer we did enjoy our tour, especially getting a chance to see a herd of Buffalo close up. Brian did his best to get us close to the herd and in doing so spooked them.\u00a0 They would have left us in their dust if it hadn\u2019t been so muddy.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_333\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-333\" style=\"width: 346px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-333   \" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jonathan-parker\/files\/2011\/02\/Miller-fam.jpg\" alt=\"Brian &amp; Gayla, Gavin, Maggie, Matthew\" width=\"346\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jonathan-parker\/files\/2011\/02\/Miller-fam.jpg 800w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jonathan-parker\/files\/2011\/02\/Miller-fam-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jonathan-parker\/files\/2011\/02\/Miller-fam-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jonathan-parker\/files\/2011\/02\/Miller-fam-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jonathan-parker\/files\/2011\/02\/Miller-fam-147x110.jpg 147w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jonathan-parker\/files\/2011\/02\/Miller-fam-250x188.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 346px) 100vw, 346px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-333\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brian &amp; Gayla, Gavin, Maggie, Matthew<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Our reason for being on the prairie was more than just a friendly visit. Brian &amp; Gayla invited us to share with their church, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grace-place.org\" target=\"_blank\">Grace Place<\/a>, about the new ministry God is leading us to in Mozambique.\u00a0 Our hearts were encouraged and refreshed by their willingness to pray for us and even to share financially with us. We went hoping to be a blessing and encouragement to them but as is the case many times, we were the ones that came away encouraged to keep pressing on in obedience to God\u2019s calling.\u00a0 Thank you Brian and Gayla for your hospitality and thank you Grace Place for the opportunity to share and enjoy sweet fellowship in our Lord Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday afternoon I received a call from my brother and when he asked what I was up to I said matter-of-factly \u201cI am out on the prairie\u201d.\u00a0 We had just spent time out on the prairie with our friends Brian &amp; Gayla who live at and manage the Prairie State Park here in Missouri.\u00a0 Though [&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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-ministry","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jonathan-parker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330","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=330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jonathan-parker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jonathan-parker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jonathan-parker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jonathan-parker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}