{"id":9,"date":"2009-08-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-04T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-09-20T21:27:37","modified_gmt":"2009-09-21T01:27:37","slug":"road-trip-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/paul-wilson\/2009\/08\/04\/road-trip-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Road Trip & More"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"FamilyRoad Trip U.S.A.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

If you live in Papua New Guinea for a long period, among the many longings is for a road trip. Understand there isn\u2019t much infrastructure in P.N.G. Well, we have cured that woe. We hit the road June 11 for 37 days; we traveled to Indiana, Michigan, Kansas, Colorado and Wyom-ing.<\/p>\n

We attended a Family Life Conference, \u201cA Weekend to Remember\u201d which was a wedding gift from some dear friends. This conference helped us in preparing for a successful God honoring marriage.<\/p>\n

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The remaining portion of our road trip was to visit Paul\u2019s family, friends and our supporters. As well, God provided some great opportunities to get some answers for Paul\u2019s skin and allergy problems. Our mission doctor in P.N.G. \u201chappened\u201d to cross paths with a very good dermatologist and Christian in East Asia at a conference for mission doctors. Her practice is in Wichita, KS (near Paul\u2019s parents!). Praise God we are getting answers and Paul is taking medicines. We may be facing a whole new lifestyle of eating habits as Paul has removed glutton, soy, shrimp and peanuts from his diet. We will re-introduce these one at a time and hopefully, prayerfully see no reactions. If we do, then that item will be a \u201cno go\u201d. This can complicate life in P.N.G., which is already complicated compared to the many conveniences here in America.<\/p>\n

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Additionally, we had a wonderful unexpected family reunion with Paul\u2019s three nieces in Glendo, Wyoming. Let me tell you there isn\u2019t much of anything around Glendo, but the lake there was a beautiful place for our reunion. Paul\u2019s mom and dad showed up as a surprise for his nieces. (It has been several years since we were last together.) One of Paul\u2019s nieces now lives in Florida, one is married with her first baby girl and the youngest is a part-time live in babysitter for her sister. Paul got to meet baby Vivian and husband Levi for the first time and they got to meet Andrea. Praise God! What a great time we had.<\/p>\n

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\"PaulAnd Lots More<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

We have just finished two weeks of Vacation Bible School at South Potomac Church (Andrea\u2019s home church and our new sending church). The first week we had about 130 kids (including pre-school) for a mid-day program. This second week we had an evening schedule for the elementary kids, with about 45. (Preschool stayed on the mid-day schedule.) The cool thing about the second week is that we had a bus ministry that focused on the non-churched kids from the area.<\/p>\n

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The V.B.S. theme was a bayou (swamp) with the various animals found there, named \u201cCrocodile Dock\u201d. As the Bible teachers we taught from Exodus and Passover was the climax. We shared how Christ has become our perfect Lamb that paid the price for our sins. The Gospel was clearly shared several times during both weeks. Pray that the kids understood and will trust in God\u2019s gift. Pray the kids heed the Holy Spirit working in their hearts with the Truth that was shared.<\/p>\n

Prayer:<\/strong>
\n\u2022\tThat the kids trust Christ as their Savior & grow in Him.
\n\u2022\tThat Paul\u2019s skin condition & allergies\/asthma will improve.
\n\u2022\tThat we travel and transition well back into our ministries in PNG.
\n\u2022\tFor wisdom when to return to PNG.<\/p>\n

Praise:<\/strong>
\n\u2022\tOur road trip went very well.
\n\u2022\tWe enjoyed friends and family.
\n\u2022\tAndrea\u2019s PNG visa has been issued & received.
\n\u2022\tOur two month old marriage.
\n\u2022\tGod medically providing.
\n\u2022\tFor supporters (You!).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After returning from our road trip, we settled into two weeks of Vacation Bible School at our home church, South Potomac Church. <\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/paul-wilson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","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=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/paul-wilson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/paul-wilson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/paul-wilson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/paul-wilson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}