{"id":599,"date":"2016-09-29T11:25:25","date_gmt":"2016-09-29T16:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tim-ullum\/?p=599"},"modified":"2016-09-29T11:25:25","modified_gmt":"2016-09-29T16:25:25","slug":"abounding-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tim-ullum\/2016\/09\/29\/abounding-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Abounding love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>20 days and counting. Can you remember what it is like to have senioritis? You are still in school but not really, all your mind can think about is what the future holds outside of the walls of school. Well Andrea and I have been suffering from a mild case of senioritis as we face the\u00a0end of our home assignment.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-602 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tim-ullum\/files\/2016\/09\/2016-09-22-14.35.06-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Family Picture\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tim-ullum\/files\/2016\/09\/2016-09-22-14.35.06-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tim-ullum\/files\/2016\/09\/2016-09-22-14.35.06-768x577.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tim-ullum\/files\/2016\/09\/2016-09-22-14.35.06-600x451.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tim-ullum\/files\/2016\/09\/2016-09-22-14.35.06.jpg 1213w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As happens every time we are in the States, the final few weeks are the busiest, trying to squeeze in\u00a0any and every lunch, or dinner with friends and family. This year we had the privilege of sharing in a mission conference\u00a0at Russell Baptist church in Green Cove\u00a0Springs. Hi\u00a0to all of you receiving this Ullums Update for the first time.\u00a0The conference was a great time for us to share the burden God has given us for the Kendawangan people.<\/p>\n<p>We received word this week that a dear friend passed into a Christless\u00a0eternity this week.\u00a0A woman about\u00a0Andrea and I&#8217;s age died this week of tuberculosis. She leaves behind 6 children, the youngest\u00a0is only 1 year old. Her fifth child was almost delivered in the back of our truck as I spent a harrowing night driving out to the coast with her already\u00a0in labor.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_601\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-601\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-601\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tim-ullum\/files\/2016\/09\/sianas-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"our friend who has passed on to darkness\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tim-ullum\/files\/2016\/09\/sianas-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tim-ullum\/files\/2016\/09\/sianas-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tim-ullum\/files\/2016\/09\/sianas-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tim-ullum\/files\/2016\/09\/sianas.jpg 972w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-601\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">our friend who has passed on to darkness<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Before we left the village to begin our home assignment we had reached out to her again, that she should\u00a0hear God&#8217;s message. we\u00a0offered to do a special meeting at her house, but\u00a0even though she has been on death&#8217;s door many times, she never softened her heart to the gospel.<\/p>\n<p>The blinding of Satan came to her through a belief system (animism) as well as a religious system (Catholic). Both of these things worked together to convince her that despite not knowing God&#8217;s message for herself, she could trust that others, the witchdoctor and village elders, along with priests could safely entrust her spirit\u00a0to God.<\/p>\n<p>Our heart breaks to see the lies our enemy Satan has blinded the world with. As many of you know, Jesus promised that belief\u00a0in Him, and His mediation for us is the only way of salvation. It is the narrow road leading to God.\u00a0Trusting in ceremony, and priestly intercession\u00a0is a false hope. Yet it is\u00a0that wide road so many travel upon. A road leading to destruction.<\/p>\n<p>I share all that to urge you to partner with us in prayer.\u00a0Continue with us in prayer, that God would open a door for the\u00a0gospel to be proclaimed in the Kendawangan area. There are so many villages that have not yet heard the gospel. Also pray for the believers that their, &#8220;love\u00a0may abound even more and more in knowledge and every\u00a0kind of insight&#8221; Philippians 1:9.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_600\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-600\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-600\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tim-ullum\/files\/2016\/09\/IMG_0483-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"taking the dead body to the grave\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tim-ullum\/files\/2016\/09\/IMG_0483-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tim-ullum\/files\/2016\/09\/IMG_0483-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tim-ullum\/files\/2016\/09\/IMG_0483-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tim-ullum\/files\/2016\/09\/IMG_0483.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-600\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">taking the dead body to the grave<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Grace Sufficient,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tim &amp; Andrea Ullum<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>20 days and counting. 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