{"id":30,"date":"2011-06-12T08:48:05","date_gmt":"2011-06-12T13:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tim-ullum\/?p=30"},"modified":"2011-06-12T08:48:57","modified_gmt":"2011-06-12T13:48:57","slug":"june-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tim-ullum\/2011\/06\/12\/june-update\/","title":{"rendered":"June Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

You never know what a day might bring.\u00a0 Do you believe that?\u00a0 Of course you do, you have all had those days when, you know the neighborhood kids are calling for you at 5 in the morning asking if you are awake yet or not, or you get asked to come and help someone who was attacked by jungle wasps and are going into allergic shock, or just before dark you have a 6 foot cobra crawl under your house.<\/p>\n

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Well maybe you have not had those exact things happen to you but each of us are faced with circumstances that we never imagined would be before us the night prior.\u00a0 The real question I think is when faced with the reality of the unpredictability of life, how do we respond?
\nSince our last update in May we have had lots of activity here in the village.\u00a0 Among other things we enjoyed a full week with a team of friends from Jacksonville.<\/p>\n

\"Friends
Friends from a far land<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We had such a great time with them and felt refreshed and revitalized after their visit.\u00a0 Not sure how they felt after traveling around the world, and then being thrown into tribal life for a week, and then back out for another trek around the world.\u00a0 After arriving home from their visit we had another group of church leaders visiting us for an extended weekend.\u00a0 Now we are back into full swing here in the village.
\nAndrea is plugging away at language and culture study making great progress and building some really good relationships.\u00a0 Because there is no access to the on off switch of activity here in the village we have very little control of our daily schedule.\u00a0 Sometimes people will come and sit on the porch for a few hours in the morning or they will ask us to check on someone who is sick or to go to the rice field for a few hours or to help pull down a tree that they are cutting down in the village.\u00a0 And then there are times that the village seems empty, not a person in sight.\u00a0 The Lord is faithfully giving the grace that we need in the moment to be faithful to His calling.<\/p>\n

\"Wendy
Wendy is learning to scrape a coconut, way to go Wendy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Something that we have started doing as an outreach to needy families here in the area is to help them drill wells.\u00a0 We are using a 5 inch wide drill bit that can be attached to metal bars.\u00a0 After getting into water then 4 inch PVC is lowered down into the hole to keep the water clean.\u00a0 So far we have started 3 wells in the last three weeks.\u00a0 Lots of other people are asking to drill as well.<\/p>\n

\"The
The fatted "calf"<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We hope with the start of summer and the refreshing times that can bring with a cookout here or a day at the beach there, that you will also look for refreshment from the Living Water.\u00a0 Only He can truly satisfy your every need and bring meaning and purpose to the humdrum or discouragements or unpredictability of life.\u00a0 May you be encouraged by a line from David’s song: “Praise the Lord; praise God our savior!\u00a0 For each day he carries us in his arms” Ps 68:1<\/p>\n

Blessings,<\/p>\n

Tim & Andrea Ullum<\/p>\n

\"getting
getting ready for the well<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Drilling,
Drilling, many hands...<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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