{"id":921,"date":"2012-03-06T03:18:13","date_gmt":"2012-03-06T07:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/?p=921"},"modified":"2012-03-06T03:20:39","modified_gmt":"2012-03-06T07:20:39","slug":"glory-to-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/2012\/03\/06\/glory-to-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Glory to God"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_925\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-925\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/files\/2012\/03\/IMG_00701.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-925\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/files\/2012\/03\/IMG_00701-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Part of the language evaluation is a walk through the village.  This gives the consultants a live, interactive conversation between Stephen and the Agutaynens.  This helps the consultants to see Stephen's language ability and his relationships with the Agutaynens.\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/files\/2012\/03\/IMG_00701-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/files\/2012\/03\/IMG_00701-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/files\/2012\/03\/IMG_00701.jpg 441w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-925\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Part of the language evaluation is a walk through the village. This gives the consultants a live, interactive conversation between Stephen and the Agutaynens. This helps the consultants to see Stephen&#039;s language ability and his relationships with the Agutaynens.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_927\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-927\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/files\/2012\/03\/IMG_0159.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-927\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/files\/2012\/03\/IMG_0159-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"These two Agutaynens endured 6 hours during the evaluation.  They would listen to a story from Stephen and then they needed to translate the story back to the consultants in the national language, Tagalog.  By doing this, the consultants would know if Stephen was making errors or not.  \" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/files\/2012\/03\/IMG_0159-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/files\/2012\/03\/IMG_0159-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/files\/2012\/03\/IMG_0159.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-927\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">These two Agutaynens endured 6 hours during the evaluation. They would listen to a story from Stephen and then they needed to translate the story back to the consultants in the national language, Tagalog. By doing this, the consultants would know if Stephen was making errors or not.  This was done over and over again.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>For many of us, certain days hold special meanings.\u00a0 For example, the day our children are born.\u00a0 Or the day we were married.\u00a0 Well there is another day to add to that list: March 6, 2012. \u00a0This day will go down in history as one of the greatest days in our lives.\u00a0 After thousands of hours of language study, and after countless prayers (by you and by us), God has brought Stephen to the point of being able to teach the Agutaynens His wonderful message in their own language.\u00a0 This last week, two language consultants came to give Stephen a language evaluation and to see how they could encourage him in his continued language study in months to come.\u00a0 However, the consultant\u2019s final report states that Stephen is \u201cready to begin teaching\u201d!\u00a0 Those last few words are still hard for us to comprehend.\u00a0 At this moment, we rejoice in God and ask you to praise Him, too.\u00a0 As this update is being typed, Stephen is already preparing his first message in the Agutaynen language.\u00a0 We hope that this news brings joy to your hearts, and renews your desire to be in prayer for our family, our team, and for the Agutaynens.\u00a0 One of the consultants warned us that Satan is going to test us and our family in ways we have never experienced before.\u00a0 Even though this will happen, we know that we are on the winning side, and we have already seen God part the waters of the Red Sea for us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For many of us, certain days hold special meanings.\u00a0 For example, the day our children are born.\u00a0 Or the day we were married.\u00a0 Well there is another day to add to that list: March 6, 2012. \u00a0This day will go down in history as one of the greatest days in our lives.\u00a0 After thousands of [&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":["post-921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921","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=921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}