{"id":533,"date":"2011-09-23T11:55:20","date_gmt":"2011-09-23T11:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paytonandgrace.com\/?p=533"},"modified":"2011-09-23T11:55:20","modified_gmt":"2011-09-23T11:55:20","slug":"winner-winner-chicken-dinner-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/payton-downing\/2011\/09\/23\/winner-winner-chicken-dinner-or-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Winner Winner, Chicken Dinner&#8230; or not"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>September 23, 2011 \u00a0by Payton<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Here at school we have the privilege of hearing from different missionaries serving in a variety of different countries. \u00a0Just recently the Wild family (Seriously, that&#8217;s their last name. Fitting, eh?) came to visit our school and encouraged the students in their pursuit of missions. As one of those students, I am extremely grateful! The Wild family has been state-side since January and will soon be returning to continue their work.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-557 aligncenter\" title=\"newsAP(9922)_img-595x300\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/paytonandgrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/newsAP9922_img-595x300-300x151.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"151\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Before they came back last January, The Wild&#8217;s took a video of some men in the neighboring tribe. This video captured their plea for missionaries to come to them! \u00a0In the video below you will hear them telling of how they had some missionaries do survey work and stay with them, this man even preparing a special chicken dinner for them, in anticipation of them staying. With great hope and under the impression that the missionaries were intending to come live among them, their hearts were heavy when the missionaries continued on their journey and didn&#8217;t return to their tribe. Aware of their desire for missionaries to live with them, they made this video to share with those of us who have the Gospel <em>and<\/em> the ability <em>and<\/em> the resources to go to them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/QxH7W9cvXlA\">http:\/\/youtu.be\/QxH7W9cvXlA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0This is ONE example of the 120+ open invitations that NTM has from differing people groups who do not have the Bible in their mother tongue&#8211; these are the people that are categorized as unreached or unengaged. \u00a0The want and need is there, can you fill it? &#8230;Who will? As mentioned earlier, we have the Gospel message, the ability,\u00a0and the resources to fill the need&#8230; now, how about the willingness?\u00a0\u00a0Grace and I aren&#8217;t enough, join us!<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center\"><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 23, 2011 \u00a0by Payton Here at school we have the privilege of hearing from different missionaries serving in a variety of different countries. \u00a0Just recently the Wild family (Seriously, that&#8217;s their last name. Fitting, eh?) came to visit our school and encouraged the students in their pursuit of missions. As one of those students, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1068,"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":[535],"tags":[273,1100],"class_list":{"0":"post-533","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-ntbi","7":"tag-missionaries","8":"tag-unreached","9":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/payton-downing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/payton-downing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/payton-downing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/payton-downing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/payton-downing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/payton-downing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/payton-downing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}