{"id":861,"date":"2011-11-26T09:57:21","date_gmt":"2011-11-26T13:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/?p=861"},"modified":"2011-11-26T09:57:21","modified_gmt":"2011-11-26T13:57:21","slug":"rice-basketball-and-coconuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/2011\/11\/26\/rice-basketball-and-coconuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Rice, Basketball, and Coconuts"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Agutaynen
Agutaynen girl drying rice on the basketball court<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

One of the national sports of the Philippines is basketball.\u00a0 For this reason, just about every village in the Philippines has a basketball court.\u00a0 However, the main purpose of a basketball court is not to play basketball, but to dry rice.\u00a0 The village we live in is no exception.<\/p>\n

\"Rebekah
Rebekah playing basketball<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This year, one of Rebekah\u2019s school classes is PE (Physical Education).\u00a0 So far, Rebekah has chosen to play basketball for her PE, rain or shine.\u00a0 Stephen gets the privilege of being the PE teacher.\u00a0 So, every morning at 6am, Rebekah and Stephen hit the court.\u00a0 By having this class so early, we (1) hopefully don\u2019t sweat too much in the mid 70\/80 temperature and (2) Agutaynens don\u2019t usually put their rice out until about 9am.<\/p>\n

This week, Rebekah and Stephen went out to the court.\u00a0 This particular morning was a little unusual as other Agutaynen kids were out playing, too.\u00a0 Well, they were playing on one side of the court, so Rebekah and Stephen took the other side.\u00a0 Before we started to play, Stephen removed a cracked-open coconut from the court.\u00a0 A minute later, one of the Agutaynen teens walked over and told Stephen: \u201cagbantayan mo\u201d which translated means \u201cyou be on the guard\u201d.<\/p>\n

\"The
The coconut tree that hangs over the basketball hoop<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After saying this, he pointed up to the coconut tree which hung over the basket we were using.\u00a0 Stephen noticed that there were at least 20 ripe coconuts just waiting to fall down.\u00a0 Where in the States would you need to guard yourself from falling coconuts while playing basketball?\u00a0 Well, \u00a0Rebekah and Stephen had a good morning and made it home without injury.<\/p>\n

We hope the Agutaynen believers will heed to the same warning: \u201cbe on guard\u201d.\u00a0 Please pray for these believers as they are not watching out for falling coconuts, but attacks from the devil.\u00a0 May they stand firm and testify of God\u2019s wonderful work in their own lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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