{"id":1916,"date":"2024-02-01T10:31:58","date_gmt":"2024-02-01T15:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/?p=1916"},"modified":"2024-02-01T10:32:00","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T15:32:00","slug":"how-do-you-like-our-hay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/2024\/02\/01\/how-do-you-like-our-hay\/","title":{"rendered":"How do you like our hay?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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There’s an old saying that says that we are to “make hay while the sun shines.”\u00a0 It reminds me of the verse that says, “As long as it is day, we must do the works of him who sent me. Night is coming, when no one can work.” (John 9:4).\u00a0 Since in all things a time comes when we can no longer work, in the meantime we’ve been making our hay as the sun shines.\u00a0 And in the picture above, you can see some of that hay.\u00a0 Yes, each book is different!\u00a0 (And\u00a0don’t you love the snazzy matching shirts I got for us all that say, “Come and learn to read in My Language?”\u00a0 Yes, I picked the color.\u00a0 No, they didn’t mind at all!)

The last three weeks have been a marathon, making 6 primers (learn-to-read books), each with its accompanying reader, and two pre-literacy books (one for reading and one for writing).\u00a0 Whew!\u00a0 I’m so grateful for the local team here who worked so hard, and also for the tireless work and help and guidance of our consultant who came in for it!

Now, in case you’re wondering why we need 6 different learn-to-read books (primers), let me explain as best I understand it.\u00a0 Using the super helpful software we had, most languages can teach everything they need to in 5 primers.\u00a0 But, yeah, as I’ve been saying, My Language is complicated.\u00a0 Hence the extra one.

By needing to spend time making an extra primer, it meant that we didn’t have time to finish our teachers’ guides.\u00a0 The fancy software helps a lot with it, but we still have a good amount of work ahead of us before those will be done.\u00a0 Can you pray that we’ll all have time (except for the consultant, who went back to her ministry now in another country) to get that finished soon?

It’s exciting how much interest there has already been in these learn-to-read materials!\u00a0 Can you pray that God will raise up people with time, ability, and desire to be able to teach My People how to read their language?\u00a0 And that somehow it will be able to be funded in a sustainable way, so that even if I leave, it will still be able to continue?

This morning I dropped off all of our hard work at the printer’s, so hopefully we’ll have copies for all those involved, as well as the chief of the whole people group, in a few days.\u00a0 Until then, it’s off to try to catch up on some of the things that I’ve fallen behind on these last few marathon weeks…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s an old saying that says that we are to “make hay while the sun shines.”\u00a0 It reminds me of the verse that says, “As long as it is day, we must do the works of him who sent me. Night is coming, when no one can work.” (John 9:4).\u00a0 Since in all things a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":945,"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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1916","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\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/945"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/susie-l\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}