{"id":41,"date":"2011-01-01T16:01:27","date_gmt":"2011-01-01T21:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ken-west\/?p=41"},"modified":"2011-01-01T16:01:27","modified_gmt":"2011-01-01T21:01:27","slug":"2010-highlights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ken-west\/2011\/01\/01\/2010-highlights\/","title":{"rendered":"2010 Highlights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our Lord blessed the year 2010 with abundant opportunities to serve and enjoy Him and to watch Him work in peoples lives.\u00a0\u00a0Take a brief look with us at the past 12 months.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>January &#8211; The first of the year found Ken preparing for sharing\u00a0with a Perspectives class later in the month.\u00a0 We had a wonderful fruitful time with a group of 50 children at a Word of Life club here in Spartanburg.\u00a0 This was the first of our children&#8217;s presentation with grandfather Tubok (Ken).\u00a0 His story is the awesome way God prepared his heart to hear the gospel long before we ever went to teach God&#8217;s Word in the Da&#8217;an tribe in Indonesia.\u00a0 Let us share Tubok&#8217;s story with you sometime.\u00a0 Then came our time in Myrtle Beach at the Perspectives class.\u00a0 God also gave us some family time\u00a0while at the beach.<\/li>\n<li>February &#8211; Cindy helped co-hostess a weekly Bible study in a local church.\u00a0 It was a blessing to help facilitate some of the discussions.\u00a0 Early in the month found us at Toccoa Falls College in Georgia for their Missions week.\u00a0 February 5 &amp; 6 our Lord gave us the joy of sharing our Chronological Teaching and Storying Seminar in a local church.\u00a0 This was in preparation for their mission trips to Peru.\u00a0 February 14 &#8211; 27 found us in Florida attending back to back seminars on caring for missionaries and their families.<\/li>\n<li>March &#8211; The first week we were on hand for World Christian Week at Columbia International University.\u00a0 Any trip to Columbia is also an opportunity to see Ed and our daughter Liz and Eliana.\u00a0 This trip we learned that baby number two was on the way!\u00a0 We finished out the week at a combined Missions weekend for a group of local churches.\u00a0 It was a very special time connecting with missionaries and believers from different churches.\u00a0 March 12-14 was Missions weekend at a local church and God gave us the joy again of presenting grandfather Tubok&#8217;s story and giving our own testimonies of coming to Christ and entering missions to over 200 children.\u00a0 March 25 &#8211; 31 was a special open door for Ken to participate in a Missions conference in a West Indies country.\u00a0 Our Lord moved among them and a number of believers became more involved in training to share Christ overseas.<\/li>\n<li>April &#8211; This month we made return trips to Toccoa Falls College, North Greenville University and Columbia International University.\u00a0 There was also a wonderful opportunity to meet with a perspective pilot family.\u00a0 They are a dear couple interested in serving the Lord in aviation.<\/li>\n<li>May &#8211; May 2nd Ken was asked to speak to an Indonesian congregation in Atlanta, Georgia.\u00a0 Later that week we had an opportunity to share with a World Geography class in a public school in Atlanta as well.\u00a0 The end of the month our Lord gave us a refreshing retreat in the NC mountains celebrating our 36th anniversary.\u00a0 While there we continued the work on the books we are writing.<\/li>\n<li>June &#8211; Early in June Dave and Nita Zelenak, friends from Florida paid us a visit.\u00a0 It was good to reconnect and renew our friendship.\u00a0 We were blessed with a visit from Barry and Candy Wingo and Ted and Sharon Wingo, friends who work in Mexico that\u00a0attended some of the same Bible studies Ken attended while in High School.\u00a0 Other friends from those days joined us for a wonderful reunion that day.<\/li>\n<li>July &#8211; July 1 &#8211; 10 God gave us the joy and privilege of staying with Eliana in Columbia while Ed and Liz went on a mission trip to Peru.\u00a0 This was a time of receiving strength and grace from the Lord.\u00a0 In the midst of this time baby Naia was born in Greenville, SC\u00a0on July 8.\u00a0 What a blessing, despite some complications for Anna before her birth and later that month.\u00a0 We were thankful to be on hand to help while Anna was recovering.<\/li>\n<li>August &#8211; The first of August the Lord blessed us with a working break in the mountains after our time of serving our family in July.\u00a0 This\u00a0was our opportunity to prepare for future ministry opportunities and continue working on our manuscripts.\u00a0 We had a special visit from one of our Bible School teachers and wife.\u00a0 Vern and Joyce Bartlett were a great encouragement to us during our days in mission training.\u00a0 August 26-29 was a good opportunity to meet believers and share missions at a local mission conference.<\/li>\n<li>September &#8211; This month the Lord gave us some great fellowship with my brother Gary and wife Karen and a group of good friends from Gary&#8217;s home church in Pennsylvania.\u00a0 We met them at the Outer Banks in North Carolina.\u00a0 It is always a reminder of God&#8217;s glory and majesty seen from the seashore.\u00a0 September 20-22 the Lord moved on the campus of North Greenville University during their mission conference.\u00a0 There was\u00a0 good interest on the part of the students and the Lord blessed our time there.\u00a0 Later that week Ken shared a presentation at the JAARS center in North Carolina.\u00a0 The end of the month we had a very special visit with a young lady sharing the chronological Bible studies with students on her campus.\u00a0 It was such an encouragement to meet her.<\/li>\n<li>October &#8211; Our Lord gave us another opportunity to share grandfather Tubok&#8217;s story with another group of about 30 children and young people.\u00a0 He only speaks the Da&#8217;an language and the children are taught how to ask him the name of different items.\u00a0 Everyone comes away knowing how a person feels trying to learn another language.\u00a0 Then we made another visit to Toccoa Falls College and Columbia International University where we found young people interested in serving the Lord in unreached people groups.\u00a0 God gave us another working break in the mountains for Ken to prepare for his upcoming trip to Indonesia.\u00a0 Little Nathaniel Kenneth Stuart was born October 24.\u00a0 How thankful we are for his safe arrival.\u00a0 Just before Opa left for his travels on Oct. 26.<\/li>\n<li>November &#8211; This was a month of great joy for both of us even though apart.\u00a0 Ken had the wonderful blessing of visiting the Da&#8217;an people group.\u00a0 He enjoyed\u00a0meeting the believers there and\u00a0seeing our dear grandfather Tubok, now mostly deaf but still loves the Lord. \u00a0Cindy had the joy of serving Ed and Liz and bonding with our grandchildren Eliana and baby Nate.\u00a0 Liz had a slow recovery and it was providential that Cindy could be with her most of the month.<\/li>\n<li>December &#8211; This is usually our month to regroup after a busy year and this time we had the blessing of Ken being invited to speak to the Indonesian congregation in Atlanta again.\u00a0 Cindy also sang with her autoharp which was a surprise to the folks there.\u00a0 Before we knew it Christmas was upon us.\u00a0 A wonderful finish to a blessed year.\u00a0 All praise and glory to God!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Lord blessed the year 2010 with abundant opportunities to serve and enjoy Him and to watch Him work in peoples lives&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"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":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-ministry","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ken-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ken-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ken-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ken-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ken-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ken-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ken-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ken-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ken-west\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}