{"id":130,"date":"2018-06-22T21:17:35","date_gmt":"2018-06-23T02:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/summer-zimmer\/?p=130"},"modified":"2018-06-24T13:27:07","modified_gmt":"2018-06-24T18:27:07","slug":"how-did-i-get-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/summer-zimmer\/2018\/06\/22\/how-did-i-get-here\/","title":{"rendered":"How did I get here?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pre-field Orientation 2018 for Associate Members of Ethnos360<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Here I am in Sanford, Florida, home office of Ethnos360, hearing from missionaries who have served all over the world\u2014 \u00a0lives dedicated to seeing \u201cunreached people\u201d reached with the gospel. \u00a0I am at a Pre-field Orientation preparing to \u201cgo\u201d to Papua New Guinea, a place that still takes me awhile to find on the map, a place I\u2019ve never been and, quite frankly, a place I\u2019ve never wanted to go. But as I hear people\u2019s backgrounds, both the ones who have been with the organization for 30 years and the ones headed to the field like me, I\u2019m reminded that God writes each of our stories specifically and uniquely. Every now and then I catch a glimpse of the magnitude of that and how amazing our God is in orchestrating our paths and His plans and purposes for us.<\/p>\n

Are you familiar with the Rain Forest display at the Fort Wayne Zoo? \u00a0The map and the photos of indigenous people at the beginning of the exhibit? \u00a0Or maybe it\u2019s just me who found that so fascinating? \u00a0Seeing that in high school, I didn\u2019t know anything about missions or the people groups of the world, but that stirred something in me. \u00a0Around the same time, the small church I attended in Huntington, Indiana, had missionaries serving in the Asia Pacific at a missionary school share, and that was really the first exposure I had to missions. \u00a0Even back then, 20 years ago, God stirred something in me to want to support them.<\/p>\n

Fast forward maybe 15 years and a couple I knew, Megan and Jared Hood, met with me about their upcoming plans to move to Tanzania to be part of reaching ‘the R people’ with the gospel. \u00a0That was really the first time I had heard of several things, and I am forever grateful for the understanding they gave to me in that meeting and in the months and years following. I hope to pass this understanding on to you\u2014 what is meant by \u201cunreached people,\u201d what the church\u2019s role is in reaching them, and how God has a part for every believer in world-wide missions. \u00a0If you doubt that or can\u2019t imagine how that could be possible for you, just wait, I\u2019ll share that with you. \u00a0But first, if you\u2019re a Christian you need to understand why you should care about that person in a country you\u2019ve never heard of who has never had the opportunity to know about Christ. \u00a0Here\u2019s a great video<\/a> about what the Bible says about missions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here I am in Sanford, Florida, home office of Ethnos360, hearing from missionaries who have served all over the world\u2014 \u00a0lives dedicated to seeing \u201cunreached people\u201d reached with the gospel. \u00a0I am at a Pre-field Orientation preparing to \u201cgo\u201d to Papua New Guinea, a place that still takes me awhile to find on the map, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1137,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":[118442,118296,118713],"tags":[448],"class_list":{"0":"post-130","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-gods-global-purposes","7":"category-the-church","8":"category-unreached-people","9":"tag-ethnos360","10":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/summer-zimmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/summer-zimmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/summer-zimmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/summer-zimmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/summer-zimmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/summer-zimmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/summer-zimmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/summer-zimmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/summer-zimmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}