{"id":2,"date":"2012-01-20T21:52:03","date_gmt":"2012-01-20T21:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/vanilla-rose\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2026-08-30T19:51:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T00:51:25","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/payton-downing\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We are the Downings\u2013 Payton, Grace, Phineas (11), and Evelyn (6). Payton is originally from Central California, Grace is from Michigan. As a couple, we\u2019re from Colorado, where we met in 2007. At that time we both already had some interest in missions work, but as we starting dating God continued to grow that interest in us together. We married in 2009 and started training through Ethnos360 the next year. In 2015 we moved to Asia Pacific.<\/p>\n

We spent our first few years in Indonesia learning the national language and culture. God ultimately led us to restart the work among the Taliabo. They currently have 13 books of the New Testament in their language, but are hungry for more. We finished up formal culture and language study among the Taliabo and are now full swing into the huge project of finishing up the Bible translation. Our hope and prayer is that one day the Taliabo will have the the rest of the Scriptures in their language as well as have the tools to reach out beyond their own borders with the Gospel. We would love to see the Taliabo church one day equipped to send out missionaries into their own island region. For the majority of people, this part of the world is the \u201cends of the earth,\u201d but for the Taliabo it is their own backyard! Pray for us, our teammates, and the Taliabo church as we together seek to have a lasting impact on the Kingdom of God.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We are the Downings\u2013 Payton, Grace, Phineas (11), and Evelyn (6). Payton is originally from Central California, Grace is from Michigan. As a couple, we\u2019re from Colorado, where we met in 2007. At that time we both already had some interest in missions work, but as we starting dating God continued to grow that interest […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1068,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","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":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/payton-downing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/payton-downing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/payton-downing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/payton-downing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1068"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/payton-downing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/payton-downing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4438,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/payton-downing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/4438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/payton-downing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}