{"id":2,"date":"2009-08-14T16:20:23","date_gmt":"2009-08-14T20:20:23","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2021-03-18T22:25:12","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T02:25:12","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-burns\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We hope to inform you about our ministry of helping missionaries to &#8220;develop a thriving church for every people&#8221;.\u00a0 We would also like to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">encourage <\/span><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">you<\/span><\/strong> in the area of missions\u00a0 and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">challenge<\/span> <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">you<\/span><\/strong> to become involved\u00a0 in the greatest\u00a0 work\u00a0 on earth-\u00a0 <strong>MISSIONS<\/strong>!\u00a0 Please read our prayer requests and support us and other Ethnos360 missionaries through your prayers. The following video will tell you a little more about Ethnos360 and why we choose to serve with Ethnos360:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Why Choose Ethnos360?\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5q9mNU7KTcY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_680\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-680\" style=\"width: 189px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-680 \" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-burns\/files\/2009\/08\/ben-with-arrows-closeup-edited-300x246.jpg\" alt=\"Yuqui Indian from Bolivia\" width=\"189\" height=\"155\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-burns\/files\/2009\/08\/ben-with-arrows-closeup-edited-300x246.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-burns\/files\/2009\/08\/ben-with-arrows-closeup-edited-768x630.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-burns\/files\/2009\/08\/ben-with-arrows-closeup-edited-600x492.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-burns\/files\/2009\/08\/ben-with-arrows-closeup-edited-134x110.jpg 134w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-burns\/files\/2009\/08\/ben-with-arrows-closeup-edited-250x205.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 189px) 100vw, 189px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-680\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Yuqui Indian from Bolivia<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Also, if you are interested in reading about what is happening in tribal missions around the world, please check out the Ethnos360 Magazine\u00a0news stories online <a title=\"ntm@work\" href=\"http:\/\/usa.ntm.org\/ntm-at-work\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #5c6f93;\"><span style=\"color: #5c6f93;\"><span style=\"color: #5c6f93;\">If you still <\/span><\/span><\/span>want to know more, I think you&#8217;ll enjoy listening to the\u00a0<em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">radio spots<\/span><\/em> that have been aired on radio stations around the country.\u00a0 They give a short missionary story.\u00a0 Listen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ntm.org\/listen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>The last little &#8216;extra&#8217; we have for you is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Tribal Beat<\/span>. Here you can read inspirational stories about what God is doing among tribal people &#8212; check it out <a title=\"Tribal Beat Stories\" href=\"http:\/\/usa.ntm.org\/tribal-beat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>If your enjoy our site and would like to know when we add new posts to this blog please hit the &#8216;Subscribe&#8217; button above and leave your email address. \u00a0Your will be informed by email when new blogs are added so you can check them out.<\/p>\n<p>We also try to send out an email update every 4-6 weeks to our supporters and those interested in our ministry. \u00a0If you would like to be added to this list please give us your name and email address on the sidebar to the right and hit the sign up button. \u00a0This will add you to our list.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy\u00a0 our site!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ntm.org\/FCKeditor\/editor\/images\/spacer.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ntm.org\/FCKeditor\/editor\/images\/spacer.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"bigText-red\">LET US TELL YOU ABOUT OUR MINISTRY<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1964\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-burns\/files\/2017\/06\/7-palm-trees-and-light-post-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-burns\/files\/2017\/06\/7-palm-trees-and-light-post-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-burns\/files\/2017\/06\/7-palm-trees-and-light-post-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-burns\/files\/2017\/06\/7-palm-trees-and-light-post.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-burns\/files\/2017\/06\/7-palm-trees-and-light-post-110x110.jpg 110w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-burns\/files\/2017\/06\/7-palm-trees-and-light-post-250x250.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At the present time we are serving as <strong>&#8216;support missionaries<\/strong>&#8216; working at Ethnos360 -U.S. Main Office in Sanford, Florida.\u00a0 <!--StartImportThumbnail--><!--EndImportThumbnail--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1997\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-burns\/files\/2009\/08\/P5055903-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-burns\/files\/2009\/08\/P5055903-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-burns\/files\/2009\/08\/P5055903-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-burns\/files\/2009\/08\/P5055903-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-burns\/files\/2009\/08\/P5055903-147x110.jpg 147w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-burns\/files\/2009\/08\/P5055903-250x188.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"boldText-red\">How can we help tribal missions by working in Florida?<\/span> Glad you asked!\u00a0 Let me tell you a little bit about our ministry here and why we continue to be involved in reaching the tribes with the Gospel.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2016\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-burns\/files\/2009\/10\/IMG_20170616_113048701-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-burns\/files\/2009\/10\/IMG_20170616_113048701-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-burns\/files\/2009\/10\/IMG_20170616_113048701-768x1365.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-burns\/files\/2009\/10\/IMG_20170616_113048701-450x800.jpg 450w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-burns\/files\/2009\/10\/IMG_20170616_113048701-62x110.jpg 62w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-burns\/files\/2009\/10\/IMG_20170616_113048701-141x250.jpg 141w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/>Phil enjoys carpentry and is pleased to use his talents on the <strong>maintenance team<\/strong> keeping the main building, offices, and\u00a0 missionary apartments in good working order. \u00a0Actually, his jobs are varied: working on the roof, building and installing cabinets, making windows and doing whatever else is needed to maintain the building. \u00a0The maintenance guys never seem to run out of work to do!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2003\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-burns\/files\/2009\/10\/IMG_20170620_104358391-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-burns\/files\/2009\/10\/IMG_20170620_104358391-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-burns\/files\/2009\/10\/IMG_20170620_104358391-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-burns\/files\/2009\/10\/IMG_20170620_104358391-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-burns\/files\/2009\/10\/IMG_20170620_104358391-180x101.jpg 180w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-burns\/files\/2009\/10\/IMG_20170620_104358391-250x141.jpg 250w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-burns\/files\/2009\/10\/IMG_20170620_104358391-450x253.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Jackie serves as a <strong>secretary <\/strong>in the Field Ministries Office.\u00a0 <!--StartImportThumbnail--><!--EndImportThumbnail-->This office handles correspondence with missionaries or anything having to do with Bible translation, literacy, the Chronological Teaching or language and culture acquisition. <!--StartImportThumbnail--><!--EndImportThumbnail--><\/p>\n<p>After working for years as <strong>tribal missionaries<\/strong>, we know how important <strong>support personnel <\/strong>are in keeping missionaries on the field.\u00a0 The ones we help everyday in maintaining their homes and offices and teaching their children, are the ones who make the mission work so that tribal missionaries can do <strong>their<\/strong> job of reaching the unreached with the Gospel.\u00a0 The money that people send to help their missionaries on the field comes through the offices here.\u00a0\u00a0 Missionaries\u00a0 who need assistance with medical insurance claims call here.\u00a0 There are offices here which handle various phases of mission work: whether it is short term missions, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">annuities <\/span>for people who want to help tribal people hear the Good News, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">computer repairs or service<\/span> or some other phase of missions.\u00a0 Missionaries who need help with\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Bible translation<\/span>, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">community development<\/span>, or\u00a0 any other facet of\u00a0 working with\u00a0 indigenous people call the office where Jackie works for materials, new ideas, and encouragement.\u00a0 Without the help of support missionaries, both here and on the field, few tribal missionaries would be able to remain on the job<span class=\"boldText-red\">.\u00a0 We are pleased to be able to help them complete their jobs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Our present ministry doesn&#8217;t seem to be as <strong>&#8216;exciting&#8217; <\/strong>as our work in Bolivia with the Yuqui, <!--StartImportThumbnail--><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-burns\/files\/2009\/08\/560_33953.jpg\" rel=\"thumbnail\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-104\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 5px; border: 0.5pt solid #BCC4C8;\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-burns\/files\/2009\/08\/560_33953.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" \/><\/a><!--EndImportThumbnail-->but we constantly remind ourselves that the support ministry of our &#8216;frontline&#8217; missionaries is a vital part of the missionary effort to reach the unreached with the Gospel. We feel that this is where the Lord has us at this time. Please pray that we would be a blessing as we <strong>serve the Lord by serving our overseas missionaries.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We hope to inform you about our ministry of helping missionaries to &#8220;develop a thriving church for every people&#8221;.\u00a0 We would also like to encourage you in the area of missions\u00a0 and challenge you to become involved\u00a0 in the greatest\u00a0 work\u00a0 on earth-\u00a0 MISSIONS!\u00a0 Please read our prayer requests and support us and other Ethnos360 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"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":{"0":"post-2","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","5":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-burns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-burns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-burns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-burns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/96"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-burns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-burns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/phil-burns\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}