{"id":2246,"date":"2019-04-17T07:54:06","date_gmt":"2019-04-17T11:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/?p=2246"},"modified":"2019-04-17T07:59:33","modified_gmt":"2019-04-17T11:59:33","slug":"building-up-a-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/2019\/04\/17\/building-up-a-church\/","title":{"rendered":"Building up a Church"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

As many of you know, over the last few months we have been in the midst of constructing a new church building.\u00a0 This church is made of cement, rebar, and soon trusses and a roof will be installed.\u00a0 But we don\u2019t just want to \u201cbuild a church\u201d. \u00a0Rather, and more importantly, we want to \u201cbuild up a church\u201d.\u00a0 That is, we want to encourage and challenge the believers to live for Jesus, both within the new church building and without, that is in the village as representatives of Christ to their unsaved neighbors.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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Building a Church. Can you find Stephen?<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

With this desire, we offered all the believers, 15 years old and up, to go to a two-week Christian Training Camp.\u00a0 This camp is held on the southern tip of our island and is an 8-hour trip via public transportation from our village.\u00a0 This past Sunday, nine believers arrived at this camp.\u00a0 Among them are two of our church leaders and their wives.\u00a0 Stephen also went down and spent two days with them.\u00a0 This camp is a three-year training program.\u00a0 The first year is very basic with classes on: \u201cCreation to Christ\u201d, Personal Evangelism, Doctrine 1, Leadership, Music, and more.\u00a0 For most of the believers, this will be basic for them.\u00a0 But at the same time, it will be a huge encouragement to them.\u00a0 If they return to the camp in the following years, the classes will get deeper and will include more training on teaching, both kids and adults.\u00a0 Our hope and desire are that they will return to the village on fire and excited to live for Jesus.\u00a0 We appreciate your prayers for these believers.\u00a0 May their lives be changed for God\u2019s glory.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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Three of “our” teens attending the camp and studying God’s Word.<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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“Our” whole group together at the camp.<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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106 campers came from all over the island.<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As many of you know, over the last few months we have been in the midst of constructing a new church building.\u00a0 This church is made of cement, rebar, and soon trusses and a roof will be installed.\u00a0 But we don\u2019t just want to \u201cbuild a church\u201d. \u00a0Rather, and more importantly, we want to \u201cbuild […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":2253,"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":[],"class_list":["post-2246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/232"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}