{"id":87,"date":"2015-10-21T19:22:09","date_gmt":"2015-10-21T23:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ron-james\/?p=87"},"modified":"2015-10-21T19:22:09","modified_gmt":"2015-10-21T23:22:09","slug":"a-day-on-the-ranch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ron-james\/2015\/10\/21\/a-day-on-the-ranch\/","title":{"rendered":"A Day on the Ranch"},"content":{"rendered":"

What is it like to live and serve the Lord with New Tribes Mission Aviation in McNeal, Arizona? In many ways, McNeal seems like it is located in a third world country.\u00a0 We live close to the border of Mexico.\u00a0 In fact, our family has chosen to attend church in the nearby border town.\u00a0 We, just like everyone else in America, live with a mission field in our backyard.<\/p>\n

Living in a small town “in the middle of nowhere”…literally, in the middle of the desert,\u00a0is not so bad.\u00a0 We’re getting rather used to the desert scenery which holds a beauty of its own.\u00a0 This past weekend we were invited by one of our church families to spend an afternoon on their cattle ranch at the foot of some gorgeous mountains here in the desert.\u00a0 It was quite an intriguing afternoon for us, complete with our own personal “tour guide” – Cameron’s Sunday School teacher who left her home in Washington to serve the Lord in this area (getting to know her was a high-light).\u00a0 She lives on the ranch and so was able to show us around quite knowledgeably.\u00a0 She made sure to carry her “snake gun” with her as she took us through a sunken river bed, over large stones which bore the evidence of Native American customs, and past a busy colony of ants who were hoarding leaves from a nearby tree.\u00a0 We saw a\u00a0branch\u00a0with immaculate holes covering it, bright green and vibrant\u00a0bushes in the midst of the\u00a0stony and sandy\u00a0backdrop, and rocks of astounding color.\u00a0 There was a 100 year old stone house on the property that we could use to “hang our hats” for the duration of our short visit.\u00a0 There’s a lot of unique history in this part of the country, as we are discovering more and more!<\/p>\n

We also decided to do some necessary shopping over the\u00a0weekend.\u00a0 There were some items that I wanted to buy particularly from a Christian bookstore, but we discovered that the nearest one is located in Tucson – a two hour drive from McNeal.\u00a0 So we made a day of it, visiting other practical places to shop while in “the big city”.\u00a0 Ron grew up in the city atmosphere in Indiana, and I\u00a0also have been accustomed to city living since my childhood.\u00a0 We may not be in Papua New Guinea anymore, but\u00a0we sure feel like there are some similarities compared to our upbringing in the buzzing metropolitan areas of the U.S.<\/p>\n

Bethany, Naomi, and Cameron just finished with their fall break from school.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Now it’s “back to the grind”\u00a0for the kids as they rub shoulders with\u00a0their classmates and new friends, continuing on with their studies.\u00a0 I continue to help with hostessing work here at NTM Aviation.\u00a0 What a privilege to serve the Lord here, even if “here” is “in the middle of nowhere”!\u00a0\u00a0\"A<\/a> \"Bethany<\/a> \"Bright<\/a> \"By<\/a> \"Cameron<\/a> \"Desert<\/a> \"Naomi<\/a> \"On<\/a> \"One<\/a> \"Outside<\/a> \"Pausing<\/a> \"Ron<\/a> \"Some<\/a><\/p>\n

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What is it like to live and serve the Lord with New Tribes Mission Aviation in McNeal, Arizona? In many ways, McNeal seems like it is located in a third world country.\u00a0 We live close to the border of Mexico.\u00a0 In fact, our family has chosen to attend church in the nearby border town.\u00a0 We, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":315,"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":[448,637],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","tag-ethnos360","tag-new-tribes-mission","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ron-james\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ron-james\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ron-james\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ron-james\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/315"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ron-james\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ron-james\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ron-james\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ron-james\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/ron-james\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}