{"id":3874,"date":"2026-09-30T20:55:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T00:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/?p=3874"},"modified":"2026-09-30T20:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T00:55:09","slug":"bursting-at-the-seams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/2026\/09\/30\/bursting-at-the-seams\/","title":{"rendered":"Bursting at the Seams"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

One of the many facets of ministry in the Philippines that Stephen really enjoyed was the youth group.  Interacting with and impacting the next generation for Christ was invigorating. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Youth Group in the Philippines<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Flip-Flops on the Porch in the Philippines<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We thought that, by choosing a ministry that was focused on senior saints, we would be missing that ministry to the younger generation.  However, we rejoice to say that the youth group in the Philippines is still continuing forward, and we have found another community of young adults that we are now impacting in Florida.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Singles in our Home in Florida<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Shoes Piled by our Front Door in Florida<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

These young adults come from a wide variety of states and countries, from different backgrounds, and they do different jobs.\u00a0 Some are MKs that live in the area, some are interns here for a year or less, and some work full-time here at The Homes of Ethnos360 or at the Mission’s Home Office.\u00a0 The common factors are that they are all single, and they are all younger than we are!\u00a0 Twice a month, this group comes to our house for a meal, some testimonies, and some games.\u00a0 This group continues to grow, and we are reminded of when our house in the Philippines was bursting at the seams with the youth.\u00a0 We are blessed to be serving the Lord! Thank you for partnering with us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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One of the many facets of ministry in the Philippines that Stephen really enjoyed was the youth group.  Interacting with and impacting the next generation for Christ was invigorating.  We thought that, by choosing a ministry that was focused on senior saints, we would be missing that ministry to the younger generation.  However, we rejoice […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":3875,"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-3874","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\/3874","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=3874"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3890,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3874\/revisions\/3890"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}