{"id":76,"date":"2009-02-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-15T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-09-07T23:43:28","modified_gmt":"2009-09-08T03:43:28","slug":"ostman-update-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lance-ostman\/2009\/02\/15\/ostman-update-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ostman Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartImportPhoto--><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lance-ostman\/files\/2009\/02\/1275_53042.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-104\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;margin-bottom: 5px\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lance-ostman\/files\/2009\/02\/1275_53042.jpg\" alt=\"Bible teachers share God`s word in individual homes.\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><!--EndImportPhoto--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"color: #800000\"><strong><span class=\"bigText-red\">Exciting news<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span> was shared with us recently from one of the Higaunon Bible teachers.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past few years, Muyiku has been teaching his family group in a village down river from us. Since 1984 this group has <span class=\"boldText-red\">outright refused to listen to God\u2019s Word!<\/span> Now, however, his father, brothers, sisters and spouses are listening and have believed the Gospel message! They are now challenging others to <span class=\"boldText-red\"><span class=\"redText\">listen to the teaching<\/span> <\/span>as well. <span class=\"boldText-red\"><span class=\"redText\">Praise the Lord<\/span><\/span><span class=\"redText\"> <\/span>with us for this wonderful news!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span class=\"boldText-red\">A CLOSED DOOR<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>We mentioned in our last update that we were praying about making a \u201cquick\u201d visit to the US. <span class=\"redText\">Thank you to all of you who prayed for us in this.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>We spent hours trying to figure out a way to use our miles to make this trip but have gotten nowhere. We also checked on purchasing tickets, but the cost is too much for just a one month trip. We and our children are disappointed, but<span class=\"redText\"> we trust God\u2019s hand.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"color: #800000\"><strong><span class=\"boldText-red\">The Higaunon New Testament<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Work continues on preparing the Higaunon New Testament for print. <span class=\"redText\">Thanks for your prayers<\/span>! We hope to see this finished up soon and on its way to the printer in the US!<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"redText\">Thank you<\/span> for your partnership in this ministry! <strong>Thank you for continuing to PRAY<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Secure in Christ alone,<br \/>\nLance &amp; Laura<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outright refusal to listen to God&#8217;s Word<br \/>A closed door and <br \/>Preparing to print the Higaunon New Testament<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":241,"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":[569,649,61839,1009,1016],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-ministry","tag-bible-teachers","tag-church-planting","tag-higaunon","tag-lance-and-laura-ostman","tag-ostman","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lance-ostman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lance-ostman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lance-ostman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lance-ostman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/241"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lance-ostman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lance-ostman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lance-ostman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lance-ostman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lance-ostman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}