{"id":3249,"date":"2024-08-23T20:52:21","date_gmt":"2024-08-24T00:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/?p=3249"},"modified":"2024-08-23T20:52:23","modified_gmt":"2024-08-24T00:52:23","slug":"passing-the-pail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/2024\/08\/23\/passing-the-pail\/","title":{"rendered":"Passing the Pail"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

You are familiar with phrases like \u201cPassing the Plate\u201d and \u201cPassing the Baton,\u201d but are you familiar with \u201cPassing the Pail?\u201d  As far as we know, this isn\u2019t an idiom but literally what has been happening here in the Philippines. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After completing the church building in 2019 for the believers of Faith Bible Church, they expressed a desire for an outside Filipino kitchen (a place to cook with open fires).  So, after many years and God providing the funds through His people, we have begun this new construction.<\/p>\n\n\n

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After a few days of preparation by digging holes; and bending, tying, and placing rebar, the workers passed the pail yesterday, from one man to another.\u00a0 What were they doing?\u00a0 Literally, passing the pail of cement, over and over, until a few footings were poured.\u00a0 Lord willing, Monday, they will pass the pail again and finish all the footings.\u00a0 Throughout the next several weeks, they will keep on bending rebar and passing the pail until all the foundation beams, columns, and the header beams are filled with cement. This is a very slow process by hand, but by doing so, the whole building will be tied together . . . the building will be tied together.\u00a0 Like this physical building, we desire to see the believers tied together, not by cement, but by unity, love, faith, and purpose.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Passing the Pail<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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You are familiar with phrases like \u201cPassing the Plate\u201d and \u201cPassing the Baton,\u201d but are you familiar with \u201cPassing the Pail?\u201d  As far as we know, this isn\u2019t an idiom but literally what has been happening here in the Philippines.  After completing the church building in 2019 for the believers of Faith Bible Church, they […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":3250,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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-3249","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\/3249","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=3249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}