{"id":829,"date":"2018-04-11T11:36:52","date_gmt":"2018-04-11T15:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/randy-steel\/?p=829"},"modified":"2018-09-11T11:53:42","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T15:53:42","slug":"homegoing-scripture-and-teaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/randy-steel\/2018\/04\/11\/homegoing-scripture-and-teaching\/","title":{"rendered":"Homegoing, scripture, and teaching."},"content":{"rendered":"

Life is full of changes.<\/strong> Some we embrace, and some we resist and avoid. That\u2019s no news to you. Change can bring growth, but can also bring uncertainty. Makes me so glad that God is in control, knows all, and is the same yesterday, today, and forever. (Mal. 3:6, Heb. 13:8)<\/p>\n

There have been some changes here in Paraguay as well.<\/p>\n

Change: Bible translation.<\/strong> Recently Greg Melendez was able to come to Paraguay and do a translation consultant check on the book of Exodus in Nivacl\u00e9 and the book of Ephesians in Sanapan\u00e1. Both translation projects are progressing and the Nivacl\u00e9 and Sanapan\u00e1 are able to have more and more of the Bible in their own language.<\/p>\n

\"\"Change: Home going.<\/strong> We received word the other day that one of our Manj\u00fai brother La\u2019enis had passed away and is now with the Lord he loves. You\u2019ll remember that we\u2019ve mentioned La\u2019enis a number of times. He is the man who used to be a witch doctor among the Manj\u00fai, but who came to a point where he listened to the Bible teaching, placed his trust in Christ, and went on to be an example and leader to the Manj\u00fai Christians. He\u2019s the one that Jeff Hunt once described as \u201ca diamond in the rough\u201d. We grieve, but not as for those who have no hope. (1 Thess. 4:13) Such a contrast to what it would have been like if no one had ever come to share the Gospel with them.<\/p>\n

Change:\u00a0Bible teaching<\/strong>. On March 22nd<\/sup>, Shaun Humphreys began foundational Bible teaching among the Nivacl\u00e9. Over the next two months (5 nights a week) Shaun will be teaching from Genesis to Revelation. The session will also be taped and rebroadcast over a low power radio signal so Nivacl\u00e9 in the area who couldn\u2019t attend the sessions can still hear the teaching.<\/p>\n

Change:\u00a0Bible study<\/strong>. Laurie has been discipling a lady from our local church here in Paraguay and has also recently started a ladies Bible study going through the book \u201cThe Stranger on the Road to Emmaus\u201d. She\u2019s never taught a Bible study like this before, so it was a big step of faith for her. She was impacted by the passage in Paul\u2019s letter to Titus where it says the older women should teach the younger. (Titus 2:3-4) It is going well and the ladies have said they are learning a lot.<\/p>\n

Change:\u00a0Helping others become equipped<\/strong>. With our co-consultant Ithie Jackson now in the U.S. in another ministry, Luci and I have a bit more to keep us busy. Besides teaching and weekly time with the missionaries in language study, I\u2019m preparing materials for the upcoming language evaluations for the seven who are in language\/culture study here. Some of them are getting close to finishing this phase of their preparation for working with and ethnic group here in Paraguay, and this evaluation will help us to know if they\u2019re ready for that next step.<\/p>\n

Change:\u00a0Added responsibilities.\u00a0<\/strong>Laurie continues in here ministries with the ACA school board and Guest House, but has also take on the responsibility of working with Steve Gutzmer to cover the areas Steve Jackson used to cover as our Field Administrator. Steve Gutzmer is also our Field Chairman, so Laurie is trying to free him up as much as possible.<\/p>\n

In the midst of the changes, we\u2019re busy, but encouraged.\u00a0God\u00a0IS\u00a0building his church, and\u00a0we get to be a part of it.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Life is full of changes. Some we embrace, and some we resist and avoid. That\u2019s no news to you. Change can bring growth, but can also bring uncertainty. Makes me so glad that God is in control, knows all, and is the same yesterday, today, and forever. (Mal. 3:6, Heb. 13:8) There have been some […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":220,"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":[537],"tags":[448],"class_list":{"0":"post-829","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-ministry-news","7":"tag-ethnos360","8":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/randy-steel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/randy-steel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/randy-steel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/randy-steel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/220"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/randy-steel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/randy-steel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/randy-steel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/randy-steel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/randy-steel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}