{"id":788,"date":"2011-09-09T04:25:07","date_gmt":"2011-09-09T08:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jonathan-parker\/?p=788"},"modified":"2011-09-09T04:25:07","modified_gmt":"2011-09-09T08:25:07","slug":"samuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jonathan-parker\/2011\/09\/09\/samuel\/","title":{"rendered":"Samuel"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_791\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-791\" style=\"width: 430px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-791  \" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jonathan-parker\/files\/2011\/09\/IMG_7551-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Need I say more?\" width=\"430\" height=\"323\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-791\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Need I say more?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We have a special little visitor that comes with his mom several times a week to help Lisa with Portuguese. Instead of getting strapped into a car seat he gets tied to his mom\u2019s back for the 10 to 15 minute walk to our house. By the time they get here Samuel is usually asleep but tends to wake up once the lessons start.\u00a0 He is only a few months old but he lies quietly for the most part unless he decides it is time to nurse.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_789\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-789\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-789\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jonathan-parker\/files\/2011\/09\/IMG_7080-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_7080\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jonathan-parker\/files\/2011\/09\/IMG_7080-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jonathan-parker\/files\/2011\/09\/IMG_7080-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jonathan-parker\/files\/2011\/09\/IMG_7080-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jonathan-parker\/files\/2011\/09\/IMG_7080-147x110.jpg 147w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jonathan-parker\/files\/2011\/09\/IMG_7080-250x188.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-789\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lisa with Samuel at the wedding<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We first met Jorgina and Samuel at church and then again at the wedding we attended soon after our arrival. Lisa attached herself pretty quickly to little Samuel especially since we left our own little grandson behind not long ago. She has really enjoyed being able to hold and care for him as well picking up a few things at the Sunday market for him. How cool that the Lord knew we would have someone here to dote on and spoil a little bit.<\/p>\n<p>I am reminded of the promise that the Lord Jesus gave His followers in <strong>Matthew 19:29<\/strong> \u201cAnd everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or farms for My name\u2019s sake, will receive many times as much, and will inherit eternal life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>No matter what sacrifice is involved in serving Him it is impossible to out give our faithful God!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_790\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-790\" style=\"width: 430px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-790  \" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jonathan-parker\/files\/2011\/09\/IMG_7535-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Samuel &quot;helping&quot; mom with the lesson...\" width=\"430\" height=\"323\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-790\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Samuel &quot;helping&quot; mom with the lesson...<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have a special little visitor that comes with his mom several times a week to help Lisa with Portuguese. Instead of getting strapped into a car seat he gets tied to his mom\u2019s back for the 10 to 15 minute walk to our house. By the time they get here Samuel is usually asleep [&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-788","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\/788","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=788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jonathan-parker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jonathan-parker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jonathan-parker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jonathan-parker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}