{"id":597,"date":"2011-04-07T11:59:49","date_gmt":"2011-04-07T15:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/?p=597"},"modified":"2011-04-07T11:59:49","modified_gmt":"2011-04-07T15:59:49","slug":"ministry-with-a-side-of-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/2011\/04\/07\/ministry-with-a-side-of-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Ministry with a Side of Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_598\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-598\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-598 \" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/files\/2011\/04\/DSC00211-Copy-299x300.jpg\" alt=\"Mission Conference at Mayfair Bible Church\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/files\/2011\/04\/DSC00211-Copy-299x300.jpg 299w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/files\/2011\/04\/DSC00211-Copy-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/files\/2011\/04\/DSC00211-Copy.JPG 446w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-598\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mission Conference at Mayfair Bible Church<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_599\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-599\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-599\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/files\/2011\/04\/DSC00211-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Theme of the conference.\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/files\/2011\/04\/DSC00211-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/files\/2011\/04\/DSC00211-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/files\/2011\/04\/DSC00211.JPG 451w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-599\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Theme of the conference.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>With every road trip we take, we try to do something fun with our children.\u00a0 For example, this last week, we were at Mayfair Bible Church\u2019s mission conference.\u00a0 Our children actually enjoy it when we attend a church more than once.\u00a0 In other words, they don\u2019t make a new friend and then have to say \u201cgood-bye\u201d an hour later.\u00a0 So, mission conferences are fun for our children as they get several days with their new friends.\u00a0 Of course, we the parents enjoy this time also as we can fellowship with many families, as well as share what God is doing in the Philippines.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_600\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-600\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-600\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/files\/2011\/04\/DSC00215-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Jordan children in front of a nativity scene in Frankenmuth.\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/files\/2011\/04\/DSC00215-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/files\/2011\/04\/DSC00215-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/files\/2011\/04\/DSC00215.JPG 444w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-600\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jordan children in front of a nativity scene in Frankenmuth.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Along with attending this mission conference, Stephen took the four children on a day trip to Frankenmuth.\u00a0\u00a0 For those who don\u2019t live in Michigan, Frankenmuth is the home of \u201cBronners\u201d, the world\u2019s largest Christmas store.\u00a0 To make the trip extra special, Stephen let our children pick one small Christmas ornament each.\u00a0 Rebekah chose a poodle tangled up in Christmas lights; Abigail chose a bulb ornament with a picture of baby Jesus; and Luke &amp; Jonathan both chose football players. \u00a0By doing this, we hope our children will have some fun memories of their time in the States for many years to come, especially as we decorate for Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you again for your prayers and partnership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With every road trip we take, we try to do something fun with our children.\u00a0 For example, this last week, we were at Mayfair Bible Church\u2019s mission conference.\u00a0 Our children actually enjoy it when we attend a church more than once.\u00a0 In other words, they don\u2019t make a new friend and then have to say [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":{"0":"post-597","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597","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=597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}