{"id":1018,"date":"2019-01-25T13:10:58","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T17:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/katie-moore\/?p=1018"},"modified":"2019-01-29T13:13:29","modified_gmt":"2019-01-29T17:13:29","slug":"a-normal-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/katie-moore\/2019\/01\/25\/a-normal-day\/","title":{"rendered":"A Normal Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I often get questions about what a “normal” day looks like for me. And while I might find that question almost impossible to answer, I understand why people ask it. I am serving right now as a church planter, with special attention to literacy. But what does that actually mean<\/em>? What do I do<\/em>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I decided to make a list of 30 things that occupy my time. One item for each day of the month. And while I obviously don’t divide my time like that, working on one theme each day, I hope this series will give you an idea of what my team is up to out here in the remote mountains of Mexico.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So here goes, in no particular order, for there is no strict hierarchy of jobs or roles. In fact, life is more manageable when we embrace whatever God has laid out at the moment instead of trying to plan precisely what we want to get done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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#1 Work on community development: beads.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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A collection of Christmas ornaments<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

There are almost no chances to earn money in this village, especially for the women. Our team has been working for years now to help the ladies be able to sell the beaded jewelry that they are so talented at making.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Beautiful bracelet designs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We spend big chunks of time ordering supplies, distributing them, getting orders from stores, dividing the work evenly amongst the ones who want it, doing quality control of items created, paying for work, keeping records, preparing items to be sold, and eventually delivering things to the people who asked for them.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Organizing and labeling the bead colors for future orders<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Over the last few years we have been getting Nahuatl women involved in the completion of these tasks, so that means that training, discipleship, and education are also part of the way we spend our time and efforts in this particular area of community service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The ladies meeting to get the beads needed for the orders they will fill<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

For more info and pictures about the work the ladies do, visit our page here: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LasMorasDesigns<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Each participant gets an individualized tag so purchasers can get to know the community they are helping<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A collection of purchases, waiting to be delivered<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Agustina, one of the believers, is in charge of distributing the beads<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Norma, here pictured with her mom, is in training to do quality control of the other women’s work<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Along with some groceries, we went to the airstrip to pick up a 50+ pound box of beads<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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These Christmas ornaments were under construction at a house we visited a few days ago<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

#1 in my series of what a normal day looks like<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":331,"featured_media":1023,"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":[4],"tags":[2423,125,4,6421,416],"class_list":{"0":"post-1018","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ministry","8":"tag-community-development","9":"tag-culture","10":"tag-ministry","11":"tag-normal-life","12":"tag-village-life","13":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/katie-moore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/katie-moore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/katie-moore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/katie-moore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/331"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/katie-moore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/katie-moore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/katie-moore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/katie-moore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/katie-moore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/katie-moore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}