{"id":186,"date":"2019-08-12T09:43:32","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T14:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tom-moore\/?p=186"},"modified":"2019-08-12T09:43:35","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T14:43:35","slug":"first-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tom-moore\/2019\/08\/12\/first-day\/","title":{"rendered":"First Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One year ago Lori and I spent the month of August in Mexico. We were in the Nahuatl village Las Moras with our daughter Katie and her co-worker Rachel. We had a wonderful time as we met the Nahuatl, experienced some of what life is like on a day to day basis for Katie and Rachel, and helped out wherever we could.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tom-moore\/files\/2019\/07\/20180816_121840-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-159\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tom-moore\/files\/2019\/07\/20180816_121840-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tom-moore\/files\/2019\/07\/20180816_121840-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tom-moore\/files\/2019\/07\/20180816_121840-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tom-moore\/files\/2019\/07\/20180816_121840-125x94.jpg 125w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tom-moore\/files\/2019\/07\/20180816_121840-250x188.jpg 250w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tom-moore\/files\/2019\/07\/20180816_121840-337x253.jpg 337w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tom-moore\/files\/2019\/07\/20180816_121840-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption>Sharing with the believers of Las Moras<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But never, NEVER, did we have any idea that one year later we would be back in Mexico. Yet, here we are! Not in quiet, little las Moras, but in the sprawling city of Chihuahua. And not as visitors and helpers, but as old missionaries in a new location.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"472\" height=\"327\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tom-moore\/files\/2019\/07\/3864601B-0CA3-49C3-9CDF-2822DD868C7F.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tom-moore\/files\/2019\/07\/3864601B-0CA3-49C3-9CDF-2822DD868C7F.png 472w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tom-moore\/files\/2019\/07\/3864601B-0CA3-49C3-9CDF-2822DD868C7F-300x208.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tom-moore\/files\/2019\/07\/3864601B-0CA3-49C3-9CDF-2822DD868C7F-125x87.png 125w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tom-moore\/files\/2019\/07\/3864601B-0CA3-49C3-9CDF-2822DD868C7F-250x173.png 250w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tom-moore\/files\/2019\/07\/3864601B-0CA3-49C3-9CDF-2822DD868C7F-365x253.png 365w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 472px) 100vw, 472px\" \/><figcaption>The school and office where Tom and Lori will be working<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As we look back, we can only see God\u2019s faithfulness in preparing the way and guiding us here. Tom is teaching grades 5 and 6 at the mission\u2019s school, Binimea. Lori is taking over the office responsibilities of a lady who is on home assignment. Monday (8\/12) is the first day for both of us. As we look to the future, we can only trust in His promises to continue to faithfully guide and uphold us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tom-moore\/files\/2019\/08\/school1-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tom-moore\/files\/2019\/08\/school1-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tom-moore\/files\/2019\/08\/school1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tom-moore\/files\/2019\/08\/school1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tom-moore\/files\/2019\/08\/school1-125x94.jpg 125w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tom-moore\/files\/2019\/08\/school1-250x188.jpg 250w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tom-moore\/files\/2019\/08\/school1-337x253.jpg 337w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tom-moore\/files\/2019\/08\/school1.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption>Tom getting his classroom ready for the first day of school.  <br>He will be teaching 5th and 6th grades.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We would appreciate your prayers for us to be faithful in our new ministries.\u00a0 Thank You.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tom-moore\/files\/2019\/08\/tacos-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tom-moore\/files\/2019\/08\/tacos-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tom-moore\/files\/2019\/08\/tacos-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tom-moore\/files\/2019\/08\/tacos-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tom-moore\/files\/2019\/08\/tacos-125x94.jpg 125w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tom-moore\/files\/2019\/08\/tacos-250x188.jpg 250w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tom-moore\/files\/2019\/08\/tacos-337x253.jpg 337w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tom-moore\/files\/2019\/08\/tacos.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption>Out to sample real, Mexican tacos.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our first day in our new ministries in Mexico<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1039,"featured_media":189,"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":[4],"tags":[123668],"class_list":["post-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ministry","tag-binimea","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tom-moore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tom-moore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tom-moore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tom-moore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tom-moore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tom-moore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tom-moore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tom-moore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tom-moore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/tom-moore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}