{"id":26,"date":"2009-02-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-11T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-08-30T23:29:11","modified_gmt":"2009-08-31T03:29:11","slug":"sheilas-vision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/robert-smith\/2009\/02\/11\/sheilas-vision\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheila’s Vision"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Sheila<\/a><\/p>\n

Nearing the end of our missions training we were told that sharing the vision that God has given us would be a ministry in and of itself.\u00a0 This statement has certainly proven to be true in our lives & we have truly appreciated the opportunities & invites to share over the past few weeks.\u00a0\u00a0One of the greatest indicators that we have been on the right track has been seeing our seven-year-old daughter, Sheila Marie, as evidenced by the drawing you see below , catch the vision in a mighty & powerful way.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Sheila Marie drew this picture (click to enlarge) just prior to a recent meeting with a very dear couple from our home church.\u00a0 During that meeting\u00a0she quietly whispered in my ear, \u201cExcuse me daddy, are we going to show the video?\u201d<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0 She was referring to a video that a friend of ours made during our time in the Philippines.\u00a0 She then proceeded, totally unsolicated mind you,\u00a0to hand our visitors one of our Partner Booklets containing our prayer card along with an NTM Calendar.<\/p>\n

\"Shiela<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n

Recently we were reading the back-side of one of NTM\u2019s bookmarks that talks about a tribal group desiring to see missionaries come and live among them. Sheila Marie commented, \u201cI\u2019ll go daddy.\u201d<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 In her prayer life on numerous occasions she has prayed for people in the world who have not yet heard and on more than one occasion she has prayed not just for my own language learning ability in the Philippines (much prayer needed) but also for her own, \u201c\u2026 so that we can tell the people about Jesus.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

On multiple occasions we have been complimented on how well behaved she has been as we met with partners & prospective partners alike. \u00a0One evening as we met with three other couples late into the night, rather than fussing she simply put her head down on the table & fell asleep.\u00a0 During another night out with partners to a restaurant she laid her head down on my lap & again fell asleep until it was time to go.<\/p>\n

As with any ministry, partnership development can be very tiring at times, but it is great to see that our young daughter is taking everything in stride and doing her part to see those that have yet to hear reached with the gospel of Jesus Christ.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Partnership Development, one of the greatest indicators that we have been on the right track has been seeing our daughter catch the vision in a mighty & powerful way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":407,"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-26","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\/robert-smith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/robert-smith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/robert-smith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/robert-smith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/407"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/robert-smith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/robert-smith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/robert-smith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/robert-smith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/robert-smith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}