{"id":30,"date":"2009-05-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-09T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-05-09T14:21:03","modified_gmt":"2009-05-09T18:21:03","slug":"down-to-the-wire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/robert-smith\/2009\/05\/09\/down-to-the-wire\/","title":{"rendered":"Down to the Wire!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Praise God for the progress we have seen as we have shared the vision God has given us for church planting in the Philippines.&nbsp; As of May 1st we are now at <u><span class=\"boldText-red\">51.5% <\/span><strong>of our recommended support for the Philippines<\/strong><\/u>.<\/p>\n<p>Please pray now as we seek&nbsp;His perfect timing.&nbsp; As recommended by the Philippine Field Leadership, our <strong><u>goal is to have 75%<\/u><\/strong> of our support before returning.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Since graduating from NTM&#8217;s Missions Training Center, <strong><u>our&nbsp;hope has been that we would return to the Philippines by August<\/u><\/strong> of this year.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"boldText-red\"><u>We have Three Major&nbsp;Drivers<\/u><\/span>:<\/p>\n<p>1.&nbsp; To get our daughter enrolled at the mission school, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.faith.edu.ph\/manila\/\"><strong>Faith Academy<\/strong><\/a>, when the school year begins in August.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>2.&nbsp; For myself, getting started sooner rather than later with <span class=\"boldText-blue\">language study <\/span>seems most appropriate given my age.<\/p>\n<p>3.&nbsp; With&nbsp;Cirena speaking two different languages in the Philippines, there is opportunity for her to jump in&nbsp;&amp; help out with the language program&nbsp;&amp; other areas <span class=\"boldText-blue\">helping new missionaries<\/span> transition to life in the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p>As you can see, needing to close the gap&nbsp;with another 23.5% of our recommended support and our desire to return to the Philippines by August is <strong><em>getting down to the wire.&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Praise God for the progress we have seen as we have shared the vision God has given us for church planting in the Philippines.&nbsp; As of May 1st we are now at 51.5% of our recommended support for the Philippines. Please pray now as we seek&nbsp;His perfect timing.&nbsp; As recommended by the Philippine Field Leadership, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"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":[],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-30","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/robert-smith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","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"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/robert-smith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/robert-smith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/robert-smith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/robert-smith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/robert-smith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}