{"id":15,"date":"2007-02-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-01T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-09-27T03:10:42","modified_gmt":"2007-09-27T07:10:42","slug":"a-dream-come-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rocky-niclasen\/2007\/02\/01\/a-dream-come-true\/","title":{"rendered":"A Dream Come True!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartImportPhoto--><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rocky-niclasen\/files\/2007\/02\/1274_23865.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-104\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;margin-bottom: 5px\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rocky-niclasen\/files\/2007\/02\/1274_23865.jpg\" alt=\"Ready to fly to the tribe!\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><!--EndImportPhoto--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My Kindergarten teacher was a missionary home on furlough from the Philippines.&nbsp; She lived with our family as well as taught me school, so I heard many stories about life in the Palawano tribe.&nbsp; Just this past week we had the privilege of visiting this area.&nbsp; We were able to go to two different missionary stations in this very poor, but friendly tribal group.<\/p>\n<p>Now In one of the stations, one of the missionaries is from our home church in the Faroes!&nbsp; There are several believers in that village so it was encouraging to visit with them in their homes, hearing how they came to know Christ.&nbsp; In the other station, the missionaries are still in language study, but they have built a very good relationship with the people in their village and it will be exciting when they are fluent enough to begin teaching the Word.&nbsp; Visiting this area and spending time with the missionaries there was truly a meaningful time for us &#8211; something that was just a dream for me when I was in Kindergarten!<\/p>\n<p>While we were in Palawan I also had the privilege of going with one of my friends to her ministry with a large group of High School students.&nbsp; She goes there twice a week and has been teaching chronologically thru the Bible.&nbsp; The week I was with her she was showing the Jesus film as a review.&nbsp; After the film was over and most of the students had left we saw one teen age boy sitting by himself at the back of the room, crying.&nbsp; We went to talk to him and he shared with us that he now understood that he was a sinner and He was lost until he accepted God&#8217;s gift.&nbsp; Several students have gotten saved this year.&nbsp; How encouraging!! What an opportunity this is to be able to teach in the public schools!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was able to visit the area my Kindergarten teacher had told me about  years ago.<\/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":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rocky-niclasen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rocky-niclasen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rocky-niclasen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rocky-niclasen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rocky-niclasen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rocky-niclasen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rocky-niclasen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rocky-niclasen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}