{"id":170,"date":"2011-08-18T06:06:26","date_gmt":"2011-08-18T10:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/paul-wilson\/?p=170"},"modified":"2011-08-18T06:06:26","modified_gmt":"2011-08-18T10:06:26","slug":"august-2011-praises-prayer-requests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/paul-wilson\/2011\/08\/18\/august-2011-praises-prayer-requests\/","title":{"rendered":"August 2011 Praises &amp; Prayer Requests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In one week we will board the first of seven flights as we make our way from Papua New Guinea to the east coast of the US.\u00a0 Many of you are aware that we had to move up our home assignment time as we are expecting in mid November.\u00a0 We have a ton of praises and prayer requests that we wanted to share with you: <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Praises:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>While traveling home, we are able to break up the long Pacific flight by island hopping!\u00a0 We are thankful for air miles and also discount lodging that is available.<\/li>\n<li>We have a place to stay in the Southern Maryland area as well as a car to use.<\/li>\n<li>We both have doctor\u2019s appointments lined up within DAYS of our arriving.\u00a0 (Ob\/gyn for Andrea &amp; allergy doctor for Paul).<\/li>\n<li>The Lord provided a replacement for Andrea in the hangar office.<\/li>\n<li>Last month we took part in doing a Vacation Bible School for our missionary kids here on centre.\u00a0 Thanks South Potomac Church for donating the supplies!!<\/li>\n<li>Dinangat believers are standing strong.\u00a0 Recently some religious leaders in the region came to challenge the missionaries in areas of church practice. They were threatening to remove the missionaries if they didn\u2019t comply with their demands.\u00a0 Our pilots were able to fly in our leadership as well as the local police.\u00a0 It was so TOTALLY AMAZING to hear how the tribal believers not only stood up to this opposition, but rejoiced in the fact that they were able to stand this trial for Christ\u2019s sake.\u00a0 During the meeting, directed by the police, the Dinangat believers wanted to put \u201ccold water\u201d on the anger of these religious leaders (which is counter-cultural).\u00a0 One after another they each gave their testimonies to how Jesus has changed them and of their love for God.\u00a0 At the end these religious leaders actually shook hands with the missionaries, apologized and left.\u00a0 This trial, a tool of Satan, was used by God to strengthen His Church!!!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-165\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/paul-wilson\/files\/2011\/08\/IMG_0793smallest-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0793smallest\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/paul-wilson\/files\/2011\/08\/IMG_0793smallest-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/paul-wilson\/files\/2011\/08\/IMG_0793smallest.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-167\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/paul-wilson\/files\/2011\/08\/IMG_1397smallest-300x216.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1397smallest\" width=\"300\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/paul-wilson\/files\/2011\/08\/IMG_1397smallest-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/paul-wilson\/files\/2011\/08\/IMG_1397smallest.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Prayer Requests:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Safety while traveling.\u00a0 (Andrea will just be into her 3<sup>rd<\/sup> trimester and is not looking forward to the crammed \u201ceconomy class\u201d flights).<\/li>\n<li>Needs at the hangar.\u00a0\u00a0 Paul is leaving our maintenance team that is already short-staffed.\u00a0 (Actually we are \u201churting\u201d in all areas of our aviation program \u2013 pilots, mechanics and administrative staff).\u00a0 Please join us in praying for more laborers as well as strength and wisdom for those standing in the gap.<\/li>\n<li>Safe and healthy pregnancy.\u00a0 (And wisdom as we rely on God for help with all the transitions ahead.)<\/li>\n<li>It is \u201cour plan\u201d to return to PNG in April 2012.\u00a0 Pray that we use our time wisely in the States and are sensitive to God\u2019s timing.<\/li>\n<li>Chronological Bible teaching going on amongst the Siar people out in the islands region of Papua New Guinea.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In one week we will board the first of seven flights as we make our way from Papua New Guinea to the east coast of the US.\u00a0 Many of you are aware that we had to move up our home assignment time as we are expecting in mid November.\u00a0 We have a ton of praises [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":321,"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":[1777,690],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-170","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-ntm-aviation","7":"category-update","8":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/paul-wilson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/paul-wilson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/paul-wilson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/paul-wilson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/321"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/paul-wilson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/paul-wilson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/paul-wilson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/paul-wilson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/paul-wilson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}