{"id":555,"date":"2018-03-14T01:59:25","date_gmt":"2018-03-14T06:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/paul-swenson\/?p=555"},"modified":"2018-03-14T01:59:25","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T06:59:25","slug":"he-keeps-his-promises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/paul-swenson\/2018\/03\/14\/he-keeps-his-promises\/","title":{"rendered":"He Keeps His\u00a0Promises"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We serve an amazing God don\u2019t we?\u00a0 He is the Creator of all things and is above everything that He has created.\u00a0 He is sufficient in and of Himself.\u00a0 Yet, He has chosen to use us as He builds His church worldwide!\u00a0 I have had the privilege of teaching at the Friday night fellowship meetings that the national church holds each week here in the community.\u00a0 It has been good to be part of this and be able to meet in different people\u2019s homes.\u00a0 It has been stretching to be teaching in Tok Pisin which has been really good.\u00a0 The lessons that I have been teaching are following God\u2019s story through chronological pictures.\u00a0 As I\u2019ve been reflecting on these lessons, it has been great to think through what God has done in the past.\u00a0 The last lesson that I was teaching was the story of Joseph.\u00a0 It\u2019s amazing to think of all the difficult things that God used in Joseph\u2019s life for good.\u00a0 I can\u2019t imagine how challenging it would have been for Joseph being sold into slavery and being put in prison, but he still continued to faithfully follow God.\u00a0 God used all those things to get Joseph in a position in Egypt where he could provide for his entire family to be saved from the famine.\u00a0 God was at work providing a way for the promise that he made to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob to continue on.\u00a0 What an encouragement that is to us as believers as we know that the things that God has promised will come to pass.\u00a0 In those hard days, days of discouragement or doubt, we can look to the position that we have in Christ and ahead to the future of eternity with Christ.\u00a0 Just like Joseph, we can walk through difficult times because God is who He says He is and does what He says He will do!\u00a0 These are good things to remember as we know there will be challenges to face.<\/div>\n<\/header>\n
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What are we up to?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

We have been here over-seeing the center while our co-workers have been away on break or home assignment.\u00a0 During the past month or so we\u2019ve been able to do a lot of different projects around the center as well as just keep things going in general.\u00a0 Ellen has been able to spend a lot of time with her friends as she practices Tok Pisin and readies herself for another evaluation at the end of this month.\u00a0 However, what she is most excited about are these close friendships with PNG women that she has been praying for.\u00a0 We\u2019ve also had the blessing of experiencing our first Christmas in PNG which included a candlelight Christmas Eve service.\u00a0 It was pretty awesome to be sitting there holding a candle and be able to look up and see lighting bolts shooting across the sky.\u00a0 What a joy to be able to worship with our brothers and sisters in Christ here.\u00a0 We\u2019ve entered 2018 now and are coming up on one full year here in PNG!\u00a0 This week we\u2019ll be welcoming two new families to PNG and 2 church planter interns.\u00a0 We\u2019re looking forward to working alongside our co-workers here to help orientate these new families to the field.\u00a0 We\u2019ll be here at the field orientation center through this orientation program and during this time we will continue to dialogue with the team that, if the Lord wills, we will join.\u00a0 It\u2019s exciting to think that later this year we could be at a point where we would be house building and moving out to the bush to begin learning language number 2!\u00a0 Thank you so much for all of your prayers and support as you\u2019ve been with us during this first year in PNG!<\/p>\n

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