{"id":822,"date":"2011-12-23T08:54:16","date_gmt":"2011-12-23T00:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/robert-smith\/?p=822"},"modified":"2012-03-26T09:46:31","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T01:46:31","slug":"too-much-death-in-the-village","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/robert-smith\/2011\/12\/23\/too-much-death-in-the-village\/","title":{"rendered":"Too Much Death in the Village"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_890\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-890\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/robert-smith\/files\/2011\/12\/1st-Agta-Visit-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-890\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/robert-smith\/files\/2011\/12\/1st-Agta-Visit-3-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/robert-smith\/files\/2011\/12\/1st-Agta-Visit-3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/robert-smith\/files\/2011\/12\/1st-Agta-Visit-3.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-890\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Donavan Epp comforts an Agta man whose child recently passed away.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\">This past month our language consultants were visiting a couple of different tribal works in northern Luzon.\u00a0<\/div>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\">During the last night of their visit to a small Agta village a two-year old child passed away from severe burns after he fell into a pot of boiling water. \u00a0Unfortunately the child was\u00a0not taken to the missionaries to see if they could help until it was too late.\u00a0 Just two days later we received a request for prayer on behalf of a week old baby on antibiotics but still fevering.\u00a0 The message read, \u201cThere has been too much death here!\u201d\u00a0 Praise the Lord that baby is doing well.\u00a0<\/div>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_891\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-891\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/robert-smith\/files\/2011\/12\/Char-with-Baby.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-891\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/robert-smith\/files\/2011\/12\/Char-with-Baby-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-891\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Char Epp with healthy Agta baby.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>What a privilege it is to come alongside of our co-workers, <a href=\"http:\/\/web.mac.com\/donovanepp\/Site\/About_the_Epps.html\" target=\"_blank\">Don &amp; Char Epp<\/a>, working to reach the Agta here in the Philippines.\u00a0 Whether it\u2019s tracking down the necessary supplies, providing a meal here or there or preparing a room, there is a much bigger picture behind what we do.\u00a0 And with Christmas once again upon us and the reminder of God\u2019s\u00a0unsearchable love for us by sending His son to come &amp; live among us, we are also challenged to remember the countless number of lives that have yet to hear of this incredible grace.\u00a0 What a glorious day it will be when the Agta, and many other unreached people groups around the world, are delivered from darkness to light, recognizing that Christ and Christ alone is the source of life and death.\u00a0 More importantly that He is the source of life eternal.\u00a0 We live in a very needy world and there is much work to be done.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past month our language consultants were visiting a couple of different tribal works in northern Luzon.\u00a0 \u00a0 During the last night of their visit to a small Agta village a two-year old child passed away from severe burns after he fell into a pot of boiling water. \u00a0Unfortunately the child was\u00a0not taken to the [&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":[3412],"class_list":{"0":"post-822","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-about","7":"tag-agta","8":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/robert-smith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822","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=822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/robert-smith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/robert-smith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/robert-smith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/robert-smith\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}