{"id":1121,"date":"2020-12-26T02:57:16","date_gmt":"2020-12-25T18:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/walter-spicer\/?p=1121"},"modified":"2020-12-26T02:57:16","modified_gmt":"2020-12-25T18:57:16","slug":"merry-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/walter-spicer\/2020\/12\/26\/merry-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Luke 2:10-11 &#8211; But the angel said to them, \u201cDo not be afraid; for behold I bring you good news of great joy which will be for all the people; for today in the city of David there has been born for you a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is exciting to be celebrating the birth of Jesus. God gave us the gift we needed most, deliverance from sin. He knew when He made us that we would need Him to rescue us. It is exciting that He knows what the future holds and that He is in control of it. This year has been a unique year but we can trust Him to accomplish His good and perfect will and that He is the victor.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our time in the US is coming to an end. We have enjoyed being near family and friends. Walter and I were not able to celebrate Thanksgiving in the presence of our family as we both contracted Covid, but it was still nice to be near family. We both had a mild case and have recovered quite well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/walter-spicer\/files\/2020\/12\/Copper-3.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1122\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1122\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/walter-spicer\/files\/2020\/12\/Copper-3-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/walter-spicer\/files\/2020\/12\/Copper-3-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/walter-spicer\/files\/2020\/12\/Copper-3-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/walter-spicer\/files\/2020\/12\/Copper-3-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/walter-spicer\/files\/2020\/12\/Copper-3-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/walter-spicer\/files\/2020\/12\/Copper-3-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/walter-spicer\/files\/2020\/12\/Copper-3-83x110.jpg 83w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/walter-spicer\/files\/2020\/12\/Copper-3-188x250.jpg 188w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/walter-spicer\/files\/2020\/12\/Copper-3-190x253.jpg 190w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/walter-spicer\/files\/2020\/12\/Copper-3-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/walter-spicer\/files\/2020\/12\/Lucas-Chloe-Carriage.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1123\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1123 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/walter-spicer\/files\/2020\/12\/Lucas-Chloe-Carriage-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/walter-spicer\/files\/2020\/12\/Lucas-Chloe-Carriage-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/walter-spicer\/files\/2020\/12\/Lucas-Chloe-Carriage-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/walter-spicer\/files\/2020\/12\/Lucas-Chloe-Carriage-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/walter-spicer\/files\/2020\/12\/Lucas-Chloe-Carriage-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/walter-spicer\/files\/2020\/12\/Lucas-Chloe-Carriage-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/walter-spicer\/files\/2020\/12\/Lucas-Chloe-Carriage-125x94.jpg 125w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/walter-spicer\/files\/2020\/12\/Lucas-Chloe-Carriage-250x188.jpg 250w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/walter-spicer\/files\/2020\/12\/Lucas-Chloe-Carriage-337x253.jpg 337w, https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/walter-spicer\/files\/2020\/12\/Lucas-Chloe-Carriage-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We are looking forward to celebrating Christmas with all our children (minus Devin who can\u2019t join us due to work requirements). We are very excited about being with our children and grandchildren.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Soon after the new year, we will be flying to the Philippines. Though it will be sad to say goodbye to everyone, we are excited to return to our work in the Philippines. It will be much easier for Walter to physically meet with people as deputy head of the school. Though Faith Academy will still be using the distance learning model, there may be opportunities for me to do some work in the health office as well.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We appreciate all the prayers and support that you give to us as missionaries. Together, we are a team to reach Asia, expanding God\u2019s Kingdom. Continue to pray for the Philippines as many are still recovering from the typhoons and lack of jobs from quarantine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Merry Christmas,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cheryl for the Spicers<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luke 2:10-11 &#8211; But the angel said to them, \u201cDo not be afraid; for behold I bring you good news of great joy which will be for all the people; for today in the city of David there has been born for you a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.\u201d It is exciting to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":235,"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":[3,4,3930],"tags":[448],"class_list":{"0":"post-1121","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-family","7":"category-ministry","8":"category-prayer-request","9":"tag-ethnos360","10":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/walter-spicer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/walter-spicer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/walter-spicer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/walter-spicer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/235"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/walter-spicer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/walter-spicer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/walter-spicer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/walter-spicer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/walter-spicer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}