{"id":3312,"date":"2017-05-15T15:48:23","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T19:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/macon-hare\/?p=3312"},"modified":"2017-05-15T15:48:23","modified_gmt":"2017-05-15T19:48:23","slug":"it-was-worth-my-fathers-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/macon-hare\/2017\/05\/15\/it-was-worth-my-fathers-death\/","title":{"rendered":"“It Was Worth My Fathers Death”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The missionary team to the Ayor\u00e9 people prepares to leave. Dave and Audrey Bacon are at the centre.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u00a0LIVES LIVED FOR GOD<\/strong><\/h2>\n

In the darkness just before dawn on March 9, 1944, Audrey Bacon called out for help. Joe Moreno heard her and fetched the doctor, who helped her deliver a little girl. Audrey named her Avis Marie — the name her father, Dave, had picked out months ago, before he went missing in the \u201cgreen hell\u201d of Bolivia\u2019s rainforest. \u00a0<\/p>\n

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Team members sing gospel songs on the way to Bolivia. Dorothy Dye is on the left; Audrey Bacon is at right.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

LIVES LIVED FOR GOD<\/strong><\/h2>\n

You may have read the story of the five men (including Dave Bacon) martyred as they tried to contact the Ayor\u00e9 people. And perhaps you read how well the Ayor\u00e9 church is doing today.<\/p>\n

But Mother\u2019s Day seems an apt time to remember that the three widows left by the deaths of the men kept working as part of the team that reached the Ayor\u00e9s. How did Dorothy Dye, widow of Cecil Dye, hold up under criticism that her husband was responsible for the deaths? How could Audrey handle being a single mom in a jungle? And how did Bob Dye\u2019s widow, Jean, teach the missionaries\u2019 children and learn the Ayor\u00e9 language?<\/p>\n

The answer comes through again and again in Jean Dye Johnson\u2019s book, God Planted Five Seeds. God did far more than help them endure; He helped them thrive and gave them the opportunity to be the spiritual mothers of the Ayor\u00e9 church.<\/p>\n

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Bob Dye on the trail to reach the Ayor\u00e9 people.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

LIVES GIVEN TO GOD<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Many years later, the relatives of those who killed Cecil Dye, Bob Dye, Dave Bacon, George Hosbach and Eldon Hunter became believers and apologized to Audrey. \u201cWe\u2019re sorry we killed your husband. We didn\u2019t know better,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n

Audrey didn\u2019t answer immediately. How could she? And then she answered as would all three of the widows: \u201cIt was worth my husband\u2019s death to see you come to know Jesus Christ.\u201d<\/p>\n

What\u2019s the cause of Christ worth to you?<\/p>\n

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\u00a0LIVES LIVED FOR GOD In the darkness just before dawn on March 9, 1944, Audrey Bacon called out for help. Joe Moreno heard her and fetched the doctor, who helped her deliver a little girl. Audrey named her Avis Marie — the name her father, Dave, had picked out months ago, before he went missing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"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":"content-sidebar","footnotes":""},"categories":[112230,4],"tags":[129,3269,5],"class_list":{"0":"post-3312","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-ethnos360","7":"category-ministry","8":"tag-add-new-tag","9":"tag-macon-hare","10":"tag-missions","11":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/macon-hare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/macon-hare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/macon-hare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/macon-hare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/macon-hare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/macon-hare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/macon-hare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/macon-hare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/macon-hare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}