{"id":804,"date":"2011-09-22T08:19:26","date_gmt":"2011-09-22T00:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/robert-smith\/?p=804"},"modified":"2011-09-22T09:43:31","modified_gmt":"2011-09-22T01:43:31","slug":"providing-support-in-palawan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/robert-smith\/2011\/09\/22\/providing-support-in-palawan\/","title":{"rendered":"Providing Support in Palawan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mceTemp\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_806\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-806\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-806\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/robert-smith\/files\/2011\/09\/September-2011-012-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Taking time out for a trip to the beach during our 16 days in Palawan Supply Buying\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/robert-smith\/files\/2011\/09\/September-2011-012-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/robert-smith\/files\/2011\/09\/September-2011-012.JPG 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-806\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Taking time out for a trip to the beach during our 16 days in Palawan Supply Buying<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As we draw closer to completing our time in National Culture and Language Acquisition in Manila, we find ourselves praying more and more about what the Lord has in store for us next.\u00a0 While we have worked towards the possibility of moving into a tribal church planting team we have also said that we would be willing to go back into tribal church planting support, which is where our first two years of missions service began.\u00a0 And so when we were recently requested to fill in for a few weeks in September doing supply buying back in Palawan we thought what a great opportunity to get another taste of that might be like.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>During the 16 days we were back on the island we did supply buying for six different families working to reach four distinct people groups.\u00a0 We purchased everything from hardware and office supplies to food and medicine.\u00a0 It may not sound like much but between all the running around town to track down the various needs, packing it up for safe shipping over land, air, and sea, this is a job that is absolutely essential to the work of delivering the gospel to those that have yet to hear and planting viable God-sustaining churches.\u00a0 So while there is still the possibility that we could join an existing tribal church planting team in the near future, there is also the possibility that we could join multiple church planting teams in providing vital front-line support.\u00a0 Your prayers are much coveted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we draw closer to completing our time in National Culture and Language Acquisition in Manila, we find ourselves praying more and more about what the Lord has in store for us next.\u00a0 While we have worked towards the possibility of moving into a tribal church planting team we have also said that we would [&hellip;]<\/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":[10059],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-about","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/robert-smith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804","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=804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/robert-smith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/robert-smith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/robert-smith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/robert-smith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}