{"id":137,"date":"2012-07-07T11:31:37","date_gmt":"2012-07-07T01:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/keith-copley\/?p=137"},"modified":"2012-07-10T23:22:37","modified_gmt":"2012-07-10T13:22:37","slug":"catching-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/keith-copley\/2012\/07\/07\/catching-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Catching up!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow\u00a0 &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Time flies when you are having fun.\u00a0 In January we set off for Hewa.\u00a0 We were able to write lessons and teach the young church through Corinthians.\u00a0 What a perfect time of seeing a young church learn about how God intends for them to function.\u00a0 The key theme that we kept going back to was found in Chapter 1:10 <strong>&#8220;<\/strong>I appeal to you, dear brothers and sisters,t by the authority of our Lord Jesus Christ, to live in harmony with each other. Let there be no divisions in the church. Rather, be of one mind, united in thought and purpose.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This has always been the goal of humanity &#8211; even in the jungle, but they could never seem to figure out how to accomplish goal.\u00a0 Due to sin, selfishness, and the vices common to all humanity, they have never been able to realize this desire.\u00a0 However, now the Hewa church sees that as they abide in HIM &#8211; HE gives unity to the church.\u00a0 (Cor. 15:57).<\/p>\n<p>From Hewa we were off to our mission support center in town for our annual missionary conference.\u00a0 A great time of relaxation and refreshment as about 160 missionaries gathered for 4 days.\u00a0 An excellent conference speaker encouraged us from the Word and we had a lot of downtime for informal catching up with old friends and co-laborers.<\/p>\n<p>From the Sepik support center- Keith flew back into the bush for yet another house move.\u00a0 A crazy time time of tearing down a house and shipping it via helicopter for reassembly further down the river.\u00a0 The trip was a success as we got a lot accomplished and there were no major injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Once we flew out of Hewa we moved for 12 weeks to Goroka.\u00a0 This is our mission hub and home to the MK school for PNG.\u00a0 All the girls were enrolled in school and finished their respective grades in a formal school setting.\u00a0 There were many adjustments but overall they loved it.\u00a0 Lindsey will be attending the Boarding School this coming year for 8th grade.\u00a0 She is so excited and has been asking to do this for several years.\u00a0 She is excited to prove herself on this new adventure.<\/p>\n<p>From Goroka we were off to our support center on the island of East New Britain.\u00a0 This is the support for all of the church development endeavors on East New Britain and New Ireland.\u00a0 It was a great time of getting to know the missionaries from this area and understanding the tremendous difficulties they face as they work in this very isolated part of the world.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, after 6 months on the road &#8211; we flew back to our\u00a0Sepik support center to settle down.\u00a0 The family needs to settle for a while so we are planning to operate out of\u00a0the Sepik support center for the next year.<\/p>\n<p>How you can pray:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pray we have a great summer break with Lindsey &#8211; she will head off to school July 25th.<\/li>\n<li>Pray for the Hewa church as they continue to grow in the harsh jungle of PNG<\/li>\n<li>Pray for Jonathan and Susan Kopf as they live in Hewa and continue to teach disciple and translate the NT.\u00a0 He is currently working through Revelation and finds it challenging.<\/li>\n<li>Praise &#8211; we are all healthy.<\/li>\n<li>Praise &#8211; we get to keep doing this wonderful ministry.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We love you all and thank you for your generosity that makes our ministry possible.<\/p>\n<p>The Copleys<\/p>\n<p>Deuteronomy 32:3,4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow\u00a0 &#8211; Time flies when you are having fun.\u00a0 In January we set off for Hewa.\u00a0 We were able to write lessons and teach the young church through Corinthians.\u00a0 What a perfect time of seeing a young church learn about how God intends for them to function.\u00a0 The key theme that we kept going back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-137","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-family","7":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/keith-copley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/keith-copley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/keith-copley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/keith-copley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/keith-copley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/keith-copley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/keith-copley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/keith-copley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/keith-copley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}