\u201cWe invite you to come because we want the medical aid and trade goods that you will bring. We want a teacher for our children\u2014but he will only come if you come. But, when you are ready to teach, we will not listen.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Not exactly the words new missionaries want to hear.<\/p>\n
Not very inspiring.<\/p>\n
And yet we went.<\/p>\n This region had been a stronghold against God and missions, and although they invited us for all the wrong reasons, they still invited us. And you know what? God got busy about changing lives.<\/p>\n More amazing than that? God let us be vessels through which His love could be displayed to these people.<\/p>\n Our God is still in the business of changing lives. He just wants ordinary vessels that He can work through. Are you interested?<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n I loved being a tribal missionary, but I\u2019m equally excited that God is going to use me at NTM Communications. Many have asked when I\u2019ll be making the move. As it stands, my current support level is at 36% and I\u2019m required to reach 50% before I set a date to move into the ministry position. Thanks for praying with me to that end!<\/p>\n For now, my life revolves around meetings and more meetings\u2014and lots of refreshing times reconnecting with old friends and making new ones. That\u2019s what partnership development is about. Sharing missions. Sharing God\u2019s heart for a lost world. And letting God touch hearts to pray, to give\u2014or to be challenged to go!<\/p>\n God is in the business of changing lives. He made this evident to my late husband and I as we served in a tribal village. The initial invite went something like this: \u201cWe invite you to come because we want the medical aid and trade goods that you will bring. We want a teacher for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1023,"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":[4,152,1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-277","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-ministry","7":"category-partnership-development","8":"category-uncategorized","9":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rosie-cochran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rosie-cochran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rosie-cochran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rosie-cochran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1023"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rosie-cochran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rosie-cochran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rosie-cochran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rosie-cochran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rosie-cochran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/rosie-cochran\/files\/2013\/09\/photo2.jpg\")
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